From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Human readable output for function return tracer
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:40:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081125154054.GA21493@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081125153653.GA21001@elte.hu>
* Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> wrote:
> > Do you agree with "full function tracer" (since we hook now on the
> > two sides)?
>
> "full function tracer" sounds a bit funny and quirky. How about
> "function call tracer"? Versus the "function tracer" or "function
> entry tracer" which is the lighter variant - both in name and in
> overhead. So we'd have:
>
> # cat /debug/tracing/available_tracers
> mmiotrace wakeup irqsoff function function-call sysprof sched_switch initcall nop
>
> note how intuitive it is: "function-call" is 'more' than just the
> plain function-tracer. It also expresses its main property: it
> traces the full call, entry and exit and return code as well.
another similar naming would be: the "function-graph" tracer.
function-callgraph would be too long.
i think "function-call" is the best of all - relatively short and
expressive.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-25 15:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-24 14:39 Human readable output for function return tracer Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-24 16:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-24 17:16 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-25 15:18 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-25 15:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-25 15:40 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-11-25 15:49 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-25 15:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-25 16:01 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-24 17:21 ` Steven Rostedt
2008-11-24 17:34 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-24 18:15 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-11-24 19:10 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-24 19:39 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-11-24 20:00 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-11-24 20:13 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
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