Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/function-return-tracer: Call prepare_ftrace_returnby registers

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Nov 12 2008 - 19:12:16 EST



>
> Hmm... The whole thing is splitted in two levels: the infrastructure
> to trace on call and return (and call
> a return handler) and the higher level tracer.
> The first could be called ftrace_exit because it is waht it does.
> And the second is much more about cost evaluation of functions and so
> could be named function_cost. Its
> functions and structures could have this in their name whereas the low
> level things could have ftrace_exit in
> their name.
>
> What do you think?

Yeah, I like that.

Ingo, what's your thought on that?

-- Steve

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