Re: [tip:perf/core] tracing: Only trace sched_wakeup if itactually work something up

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Dec 22 2010 - 08:19:09 EST


On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 13:16 +0000, tip-bot for Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Commit-ID: 14bc7a06c6175cfa8070a5f5022210b648c3e0a7
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/14bc7a06c6175cfa8070a5f5022210b648c3e0a7
> Author: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 16:56:14 -0500
> Committer: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:46:59 -0500
>
> tracing: Only trace sched_wakeup if it actually work something up
>
> Currently the tracepoint sched_wakeup traces the wakeup event even
> if the wakeup failed to wake anything up. This is quite stupid
> but it happens because we did not want to add a conditional
> to the core kernel code that would just slow down the wakeup events.
>
> This patch changes the wakeup tracepoints to use the
>
> DEFINE_EVENT_CONDITIONAL()
>
> to test the "success" parameter and will only trace the event if
> the wakeup was successfull.
>
> The success field in the tracepoint is removed since it is no
> longer needed.

I NAKed this, its stupid.
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