Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 02:24:13 EST



* John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> For system debugging, we sometimes want to know who sets one
> alarm timer, the time of the timer, when the timer started and
> fired and so on. Thus adding tracepoints can help us trace the
> alarmtimer information.

s/one alarm timer/an alarm timer

> For example, when we debug the system supend/resume, if the
> system is always resumed by RTC alarm, we can find out which
> process set the alarm timer to resume system by below trace log:

s/when we debug the system/when we debug system
s/supend/suspend
s/resume system/resume the system
s/by below trace log/by the trace log below

> From the trace log, we can find out the 'Binder:3292_2' process
> set one alarm timer which resumes the system.

s/set one alarm timer/set an alarm timer

> Changes since v4:
> - Initialize 'type' to -1 and rename it in alarmtimer_suspend().
> - Fix typo in subject line.
>
> Changes since v3:
> - Remove the "ALARM_" prefix in the string.
> - Add the ACK by Steven Rostedt.
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Save time as s64 type.
> - Remove 'process_name' parameter and add 'now' parameter.
> - Rename the trace event name.
> - Remove restart trace event.
> - Other optimization.

I find it really sad that a patch that has gone through 4 iterations still has so
many typos and grammar errors in its changelog :-(

Thanks,

Ingo