linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] rv: Add monitors to validate task switch

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Message-ID: <20250723102245.75631501@batman.local.home>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 10:22:45 -0400
From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To: Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@...hat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Peter
 Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>, Nam Cao <namcao@...utronix.de>, Tomas
 Glozar <tglozar@...hat.com>, Juri Lelli <jlelli@...hat.com>, Clark Williams
 <williams@...hat.com>, John Kacur <jkacur@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 00/14] rv: Add monitors to validate task switch

On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 11:55:50 +0200
Gabriele Monaco <gmonaco@...hat.com> wrote:

> The rationale is that tools files changed in the kernel patches are not
> really tool stuff (dot models). And kernel stuff changed in the tools
> are something that the tools generate, and to test them a build should
> suffice (kernel robot would do that). Having them together eases
> testing the tool, I believe.

Yes, I agree with the above.

If you make kernel changes that a new dot file is going to use, then
sure, keep that in the kernel side.

I'm basically saying that any tools enhancements beyond adding new
models and such should be in their own series.

Thanks,

-- Steve