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

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2010-12-22 at 14:19 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 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.

I wouldn't call it stupid, but unnecessary, yes.

Anyway, it was the last patch of the series.

Ingo, can you revert this last patch?

Thanks,

-- Steve



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