Re: [PATCH 03/15] tracing: Add a free on close control mechanism for buffer_size_kb

From: Vaibhav Nagarnaik
Date: Mon Jun 13 2011 - 15:13:22 EST


On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 4:54 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-06-13 at 13:49 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
>> > https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/3/17/366
>> >
>> > I didn't really like adding another file to the debugfs system, and
>> > recommended the ioctl. It seemed like a nice "unix" fit. But if you
>> > want to go back to the Vaibhav's original method, which will stay
>> > in the frame of "human-parseable and scripted". We could do that.
>>
>> Yes, i think so - the *only* point of the /debug/tracing/ muck is
>> that it's scriptable and human parseable. If Google wants to use it
>> for more than that then they should help us enhance the perf syscall
>> ABI for tracing ...
>
> Hi Vaibhav,
>
> Sorry for the spin around, but could you resubmit your original patch?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -- Steve
>

Sure Steven. I will create and send the new patch.


Vaibhav Nagarnaik
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