Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Function tracing support for pstore

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2012-07-10 at 12:01 +0000, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 July 2012, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> > With this support kernel can save functions call chain log into a
> > persistent ram buffer that can be decoded and dumped after reboot
> > through pstore filesystem. It can be used to determine what function
> > was last called before a hang or an unexpected reset (caused by, for
> > example, a buggy driver that abuses HW).
> 
> I just looked at the patches, and they are all well implemented. I could
> find nothing wrong with the implementation. As to the question of whether
> we want this functionality I have to leave that to the tracing people.

I'm fine with it. You can add my:

  Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>

to the tracing specific patches (I haven't taken a deep look at the
pstore specific patches).

-- Steve


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