Re: [PATCH v2 00/40] tracing: Inter-event (e.g. latency) support

[Tom Zanussi]

Hi Masami,

On Tue, 2017-09-12 at 10:50 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> On Tue,  5 Sep 2017 16:57:12 -0500
> Tom Zanussi <tom.zanussi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is V2 of the inter-event tracing patchset.
> > 
> > There are too many changes to list in detail, most of them directly
> > addressing input from V1, but here are the major changes from V1
> > (thanks to everyone who reviewed V1 and thanks to both Vedang Patel
> > and Baohong Liu for their contributions and included patches):
> [..]
> 
> > 
> >  Documentation/trace/events.txt      |  431 ++++
> >  include/linux/ring_buffer.h         |   17 +-
> >  include/linux/trace_events.h        |   24 +-
> >  include/linux/tracepoint-defs.h     |    1 +
> >  kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c          |  126 +-
> >  kernel/trace/trace.c                |  205 +-
> >  kernel/trace/trace.h                |   25 +-
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events.c         |   51 +-
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events_hist.c    | 4472 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
> >  kernel/trace/trace_events_trigger.c |   53 +-
> >  kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c         |   18 +-
> >  kernel/trace/trace_probe.c          |   86 -
> >  kernel/trace/trace_probe.h          |    7 -
> >  kernel/trace/trace_uprobe.c         |    2 +-
> >  kernel/trace/tracing_map.c          |  229 +-
> >  kernel/trace/tracing_map.h          |   20 +-
> >  kernel/tracepoint.c                 |   18 +-
> >  17 files changed, 5073 insertions(+), 712 deletions(-)
> 
> There seems no Makefile and Kconfig changes. Would this mean
> we just need CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS=y to enable it?
> 

Yes - I didn't see a need for a separate config for this.

> I think you'd better update the HIST_TRIGGER's description
> so that user can notice which should be enabled for inter-event
> tracing.
> 

Good point, will do.

Thanks,

Tom