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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:00:00 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: alarmtimer: Add the trcepoints for alarmtimer
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> wrote:
> For system debugging, we usually 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>


Looks reasonable to me.  Might be good to get a specific example of
something you've used this for (with example output) in the commit
log.

Please also fix up the kbuild test issues and resubmit.

thanks
-john