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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: "Life is hard, and then you die" <ronald@innovation.ch>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
	Henrik Rydberg <rydberg@bitmath.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>,
	Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org>,
	Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>,
	Federico Lorenzi <federico@travelground.com>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] driver core: add dev_print_hex_dump() logging function.
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2019 08:30:36 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190328083036.7398db1b@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190328112952.GA2232@kroah.com>

On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 12:29:52 +0100
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> >   3. In at least two places we log different types of packets in the
> >      same lines of code (protected by a "if (log_mask & PKT_TYPE)") -
> >      dynamic-debug would only allow enabling or disabling logging of
> >      all packets. This could be worked around by creating a separate
> >      (but essentially duplicate) logging function for each packet type
> >      and some lookup table to call the appropriate one. Not very
> >      pretty IMO, though.  
> 
> True, but you can use tracepoints as well, that would probably be much
> easier when you are logging data streams.  You can also use an ebpf
> program with the tracepoints to log just what you need/want to when you
> want to as well.

And tracepoints have filters where you don't even need ebpf to do such
filtering.

See Documentation/trace/events.rst Section 5: Event Filtering

-- Steve

  reply	other threads:[~2019-03-28 12:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-03-27  1:48 [PATCH v3 0/4] Add Apple SPI keyboard and trackpad driver Ronald Tschalär
2019-03-27  1:48 ` [PATCH v3 1/4] drm/bridge: sil_sii8620: depend on INPUT instead of selecting it Ronald Tschalär
2019-03-27 14:13   ` Andrzej Hajda
2019-03-28  0:07     ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-03-28 11:48       ` Andrzej Hajda
2019-03-29  9:22         ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-03-27  1:48 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] lib/hexdump.c: factor out generic hexdump formatting for reuse Ronald Tschalär
2019-03-27  7:46   ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-28  0:34     ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-03-28  9:03       ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-28 10:29         ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-03-27  1:48 ` [PATCH v3 3/4] driver core: add dev_print_hex_dump() logging function Ronald Tschalär
2019-03-27  2:37   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-28  0:28     ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-03-28  5:29       ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-28 10:27         ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-03-28 11:29           ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-28 12:30             ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2019-04-02  2:47             ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-04-02  6:33               ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-07  1:46                 ` Life is hard, and then you die
2019-04-08 12:07                   ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-27  1:48 ` [PATCH v3 4/4] Input: add Apple SPI keyboard and trackpad driver Ronald Tschalär
2019-03-27  9:35   ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-27 18:45     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-03-27 19:15       ` Steven Rostedt
2019-03-27 19:22       ` Andy Shevchenko
2019-03-28  0:24     ` Life is hard, and then you die

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