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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, srostedt@redhat.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Fr?d?ric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] sputrace: use the generic event tracer
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 13:02:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090506110258.GA24850@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090506105748.GE25203@elte.hu>

On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 12:57:48PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Nice! Needs also an Ack from PowerPC folks before we can do this. 
> The cross section to other powerpc code seems to be rather low.

cbe-oss-dev is the Cell list.

> > -config SPU_TRACE
> > -	tristate "SPU event tracing support"
> > -	depends on SPU_FS && MARKERS
> > -	help
> > -	  This option allows reading a trace of spu-related events through
> > -	  the sputrace file in procfs.
> 
> I think we should keep this option around.

Why?  trace_events that aren't enabled are extremly low overhead.
And most in the current tree are non-optional.

> > +# magic for the trace events
> > +CFLAGS_sched.o := -I$(src)
> 
> Steve, i'm wondering whether this type of Makefile hackery (caused 
> by modular tracepoints) could be eliminated ...

We would just have to include the header file with "" instead of <>.
But I remember Steve not liking this when we talked about it.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-06 11:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090506102918.GA23278@lst.de>
2009-05-06 10:57 ` [PATCH, RFC] sputrace: use the generic event tracer Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 11:02   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2009-05-06 11:23     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 13:54       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-06 14:47         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-05-06 14:59           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-06 16:53   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-05-06 17:13     ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-06 19:05       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-05-10 19:07         ` [Cbe-oss-dev] " Christoph Hellwig
2009-05-06 10:58 ` Ingo Molnar

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