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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Hiraku Toyooka <hiraku.toyooka.gu@hitachi.com>
Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 -tip 3/4] tracing: make a snapshot feature available from userspace
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 12:08:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1355504913.17101.399.camel@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50C14F5A.50807@hitachi.com>

On Fri, 2012-12-07 at 11:07 +0900, Hiraku Toyooka wrote:
> Hi, Steven,
> 
> (2012/11/30 23:17), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> [snip]
>  >
>  > Actually, I would have:
>  >
>  >   status\input |     0      |     1      |    else    |
>  >  --------------+------------+------------+------------+
>  >  not allocated |(do nothing)| alloc+swap |   EINVAL   |
>  >  --------------+------------+------------+------------+
>  >    allocated   |    free    |   swap     |   clear    |
>  >  --------------+------------+------------+------------+
>  >
>  > Perhaps we don't need to do the clear on swap, just let the trace
>  > continue where it left off? But in case we should swap...
>  >
> 
> I think we don't need the clear on swap too.
> I'll update my patches like this table.
> 
>  > There's a fast way to clear the tracer. Look at what the wakeup tracer
>  > does. We can make that generic. If you want, I can write that code up
>  > too. Hmm, maybe I'll do that, as it will speed things up for
>  > everyone :-)
>  >
> 

BTW, any update on this? I really like to get this into 3.9.

Thanks!

-- Steve



  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-12-14 17:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17  2:56 [PATCH v2 -tip 0/4] tracing: make a snapshot feature available from userspace Hiraku Toyooka
2012-10-17  2:56 ` [PATCH v2 -tip 1/4] tracing: change tracer's integer flags to bool Hiraku Toyooka
2012-10-17  2:56 ` [PATCH v2 -tip 2/4] tracing: add a resize function for making one buffer equivalent to the other buffer Hiraku Toyooka
2012-10-17  2:56 ` [PATCH v2 -tip 3/4] tracing: make a snapshot feature available from userspace Hiraku Toyooka
2012-11-16  1:46   ` Steven Rostedt
2012-11-30  5:46     ` Hiraku Toyooka
2012-11-30 14:17       ` Steven Rostedt
2012-12-07  2:07         ` Hiraku Toyooka
2012-12-08  1:00           ` Steven Rostedt
2012-12-14 17:08           ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2012-12-17 10:50             ` Hiraku Toyooka
2012-10-17  2:56 ` [PATCH v2 -tip 4/4] tracing: add description of snapshot to Documentation/trace/ftrace.txt Hiraku Toyooka
2012-11-16  0:16 ` [PATCH v2 -tip 0/4] tracing: make a snapshot feature available from userspace Steven Rostedt

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