Re: [PATCH 0/3] A kernel tracing interface - (updated)

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* David J. Wilder (dwilder@us.ibm.com) wrote:
> These patches provide a kernel tracing interface called "trace".
> 
> (update) Moved the sample code to the new samples\ subdir
> 
> The motivation for "trace" is to:
> - Provide a simple set of tracing primitives that will utilize the high-
>   performance and low-overhead of relayfs for passing traces data from
>   kernel to user space.
> - Provide a common user interface for managing kernel traces.
> - Allow for binary as well as ascii trace data.
> - Incorporate features from the systemtap runtime that are
>   useful to others.
> 
> Patches are against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1
> 
> Summary of patches:
> [patch 1/3]  Trace code and documentation
> [patch 2/3]  Relay Reset Consumed
> [patch 3/3]  Trace sample
> 
> Note: Patches 1/3 and 2/3 must be applied together.
> 
> Note: The following patches must be applied with 3/3.
> [patch 3/5] Add samples subdir
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/157

I guess you mean:
[patch 3/5] Add samples subdir (updated)
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/366

(please try it with this new version, it should work as is..)

Mathieu

> [patch 4/5] Linux Kernel Markers - Samples
> 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/166
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
> 
> 

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