Re: Nested events with zero deltas, can use absolute timestamps instead?

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 24 May 2019 08:48:44 -0700
Jason Behmer <jbehmer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Sorry, I'm not sure I follow.  By new tracing option do you mean a new
> option in the timestamp_mode file?  I guess in that case would that
> still be the only writable option?  You could write 1/0 to the file
> which would turn on/off force_absolute_timestamps, and reading the
> file would show which of absolute, delta, and force_absolute was set?
> Or did you mean something else by tracing option?

I mean the options in tracefs/options/*

Do a search for OVERWRITE in kernel/trace/ and see what it does.

-- Steve