Re: binary ftrace buffer format

[Johannes Berg]

On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 21:51 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:

> I have a tool called trace-cmd (I'm looking into porting it to the perf 
> tool) but it currently does what you want. I've tested it on both 32 bit 
> and 64 bit systems as well as big and little endians. The files can be 
> created on one system and read on another. It contains data in the files 
> to let other systems know how to read it.
> 
> You can get the tool here:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/trace-cmd.git

Nice! I'll give it a whirl, in the meantime I've already found the
problem I was looking for though.

> Currently, we have not the need to trace more than a page. But this is 
> something that can be changed in the future, but currently we have not had 
> the need, and when it was developed, Linus suggested pages would be fine.

Fair enough.

johannes

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