Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] tracing/boot: Add histogram syntax support in boot-time tracing

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Aug 02 2021 - 12:34:22 EST


On Tue, 3 Aug 2021 00:30:10 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Here is a series of patches for boot-time tracing to add histogram
> syntax extension and fixes a build issue.

Cool, I'll try to look at this, this week.

Thanks Masami!

-- Steve


>
> Currently, the boot-time tracing only supports per-event actions
> for setting trigger actions. This is enough for short actions
> like 'traceon', 'traceoff', 'snapshot' etc. However, it is not good
> for the 'hist' trigger action because it is usually too long to write
> it in a single string especially if it has an 'onmatch' action.
>