Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'

From: Ian Munsie
Date: Wed Nov 17 2010 - 19:47:53 EST


Excerpts from Thomas Gleixner's message of Wed Nov 17 08:04:40 +1100 2010:
> We are pleased to announce a new tracing tool called 'trace'.

Cool!

> Build the -tip kernel and reboot into it to get the most out of the
> tool - but even on default kernels it will try to cope. Syscall events
> (CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y) is a must for most methods of analysis
> though. (with the above -tip tree you'll get it all configured by
> default)

OK, now I'll really have to find some time in the near future to go back
to the work I was doing on the ftrace syscalls + building on Jason's
ftrace compat syscall patches to make the most of this.

Cheers,
-Ian
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