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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace
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On Thu, 4 Mar 2010, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 04, 2010 at 04:30:38PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 22:17 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > 
> > > No, we want to decouple it from 'tracing'. It's events, not tracing. Events 
> > > are more broader, they can be used for RAS, profiling, counting, etc. - not 
> > > just tracing.
> > > 
> > > Furthermore, we only want /debug/tracing/events really, not the various 
> > > dynamic ftrace controls - those could remain in /debug/tracing/.
> > 
> > I was talking about the files in the events directory:
> > 
> > events/sched/sched_switch/{id,format,enable,filter}
> > 
> > 
> > Seems only the format file should go in, and perhaps the id.
> > 
> > I can keep the debug/tracing/events/* as is too, where the format and id
> > just call the same routines that the eventfs calls, but add the enable
> > and filter to be specific to ftrace.
> 
> 
> The /debug/tracing/events could contain symlinks for the format
> files so that the rest can stay there.

Are you proposing to create another sysfs symlink maze ?

Thanks,

	tglx