Re: [PATCH] rudimentary tracing for Classic RCU

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Oct 09 2008 - 06:46:58 EST


> Why don't you use the ring-buffer tracing engine?

Because he doesn't actually need a ring buffer, it's a snapshot in
time.

> You will really make your life better by putting it as a tracer in
> kernel/trace and by using the relevant API.
> That will avoid you to manage the debugfs things, the memory
> allocation, the buffer managment.....

ftrace-of-bork wants to assimilate everything?

-Andi

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