linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 13/19] rtla: Add Documentation

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Message-ID: <20211019112506.2901184a@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:25:06 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org>
Cc:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...nel.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@...hat.com>,
        Clark Williams <williams@...hat.com>,
        John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org, linux-trace-devel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 13/19] rtla: Add Documentation

On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 17:08:57 +0200
Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@...nel.org> wrote:

> > Is this really tracing, or is it another domain (analysis)?  
> 
> Hummm... it uses tracing and capture trace... but to do analysis. rtsl (tool
> inside the rtla in the future) will be even more in the analysis side....

Right. It's a user of tracing, but not a tracer itself. Which is why I'm
thinking it deserves its own category.


Jon, do you have thoughts about this?

-- Steve