Re: [PATCH v3 0/6] tracing: export event trace and trace_marker

[Tingwei Zhang]

Hi Alexander,

May I know your comments for this patch set?

Thanks,
Tingwei

On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 09:45:46AM +0800, Tingwei Zhang wrote:
> Ftrace has ability to export trace packets to other destination.
> Currently, only function trace can be exported. This series extends the
> support to event trace and trace_maker. STM is one possible destination to
> export ftrace. Use separate channel for each CPU to avoid mixing up
> packets
> from different CPUs together.
> 
> Change from v2:
> Change flag definition to BIT(). (Steven)
> Add comment in stm_ftrace_write() to clarify it's safe to use 
> smp_processor_id() here since preempt is disabled. (Steven) 
> 
> Change from v1:
> All changes are suggested by Steven Rostedt.
> User separate flag to control function trace, event trace and trace mark.
> Allocate channels according to num_possible_cpu() dynamically.
> Move ftrace_exports routines up so all ftrace can use them.
> 
> Tingwei Zhang (6):
>   stm class: ftrace: change dependency to TRACING
>   tracing: add flag to control different traces
>   tracing: add trace_export support for event trace
>   tracing: add trace_export support for trace_marker
>   stm class: ftrace: enable supported trace export flag
>   stm class: ftrace: use different channel accroding to CPU
> 
>  drivers/hwtracing/stm/Kconfig  |   2 +-
>  drivers/hwtracing/stm/ftrace.c |   7 +-
>  include/linux/trace.h          |   7 +
>  kernel/trace/trace.c           | 270 ++++++++++++++++++---------------
>  4 files changed, 159 insertions(+), 127 deletions(-)
> 
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