Re: [PATCH 6/6 v2] perf: Make perf aware of tracefs

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Feb 03 2015 - 11:46:02 EST


On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 15:16:25 +0100
Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 02:35:07PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>
> SNIP
>
> > }
> > @@ -325,12 +351,19 @@ const char *perf_debugfs_mount(const char *mountpoint)
> > void perf_debugfs_set_path(const char *mntpt)
> > {
> > snprintf(debugfs_mountpoint, strlen(debugfs_mountpoint), "%s", mntpt);
> > - set_tracing_events_path(mntpt);
> > + set_tracing_events_path("tracing/", mntpt);
> > +}
> > +
> > +static const char *find_tracefs(void)
> > +{
> > + const char *path = __perf_tracefs_mount(NULL);
> > +
> > + return path;
>
> I guess you ommited the fprint(stderr... ) warning on purpose
> (like in find_debugfs), because the tracefs is not upstream yet, right?

Right, because I didn't want people complaining about using a new perf
with an old kernel, and suddenly get warnings.

>
> maybe we want at least pr_debug warning here..
> anyway, other than that the patchset looks ok to me:

I was thinking that we could add one later, when tracefs is more common.

>
> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks!

Arnaldo, do you want to pick this up?

-- Steve
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