Re: [RFC 0/3] x86_64,tracing: multiplexing function tracer

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 16:43 +0200, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> hi, me again ;)
> 
> from last RFC email it turned out it'd be good to have support
> for more than 1 currently running function tracers. With
> the possibility to specify separate filter for each of them.

Jiri, I thought I told you to wait, as I'm basically doing the same
thing. Except that I'm gutting the heck out of ftrace.c.

I've been working the last several days rewriting this code.

> 
> I thought about one way how to do that and put it to the
> code for considering. It seems to work properly, though
> I was fighting with set_ftrace_filter for a while.. and
> it is still not ideal ;)

Soon, set_ftrace_filter will only affect the function tracer and not any
other user of function tracing.

I'm almost done. I was hoping to release something today, but it will
probably have to wait till next week.

-- Steve


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