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From: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
To: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: alarmtimer: Add the trcepoints for alarmtimer
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 13:00:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALAqxLXQJ0z-G8CyBptupGmDsMEBUf21n-yKyriwhKCqc0omtw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <787c0df77330b8e33280a06fdde6754752fa79db.1470992599.git.baolin.wang@linaro.org>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-08-17 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-12  9:16 [PATCH] time: alarmtimer: Add the trcepoints for alarmtimer Baolin Wang
2016-08-12 11:08 ` kbuild test robot
2016-08-17 20:00 ` John Stultz [this message]
2016-08-18  2:21   ` Baolin Wang

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