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From: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>,
	Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/2] perf: add support for logging debug messages to file
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:04:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191128150424.r6zvv3jwlegjkhcb@mail.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9r6e6gw.fsf@linux.intel.com>

On Tue, Nov 26, 2019 at 12:19:11PM -0800, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > When in TUI mode, it is impossible to show all the debug messages to
> > console. This make it hard to debug perf issues using debug messages.
> > This patch adds support for logging debug messages to file to resolve
> > this problem.
> 
> This was already solved in
> 
> commit f78eaef0e0493f6068777a246b9c4d9d5cf2b7aa
> Author: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> Date:   Fri Nov 21 13:38:00 2014 -0800
> 
>     perf tools: Allow to force redirect pr_debug to stderr.
> 
>     When debugging the tui browser I find it useful to redirect the
>     debug
>         log into a file. Currently it's always forced to the message
>     line.
> 
>     Add an option to force it to stderr. Then it can be easily
>     redirected.
>     
> You can do
> 
> perf report --debug stderr 2> file ...
>
Yes, this is a good alternate approach with existing code. I still think
a new option 'file' is not bad. And later maybe we can ouput debug messages
to file only while errors ouput to both.

> -Andi

-- 
Cheers,
Changbin Du

      reply	other threads:[~2019-11-28 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-26 14:37 [PATCH v7 0/2] perf: add support for logging debug messages to file Changbin Du
2019-11-26 14:37 ` [PATCH v7 1/2] perf: support multiple debug options separated by ',' Changbin Du
2019-11-26 14:37 ` [PATCH v7 2/2] perf: add support for logging debug messages to file Changbin Du
2019-11-26 20:19 ` [PATCH v7 0/2] " Andi Kleen
2019-11-28 15:04   ` Changbin Du [this message]

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