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From: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@linaro.org>
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, mingo@redhat.com,
	mathieu.poirier@linaro.org, serge.broslavsky@linaro.org,
	broonie@kernel.org, zhang.lyra@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 1/4] STM trace event: Adding generic buffer interface driver
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:09:18 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fv4yn6dd.fsf@ashishki-desk.ger.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150708121029.GE12596@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net>

Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 07, 2015 at 06:10:40PM +0800, Chunyan Zhang wrote:
>> +config STM_TRACE_EVENT
>> +	tristate "Redirect/copy the output from kernel trace event to STM engine"
>
> How does tristate make sense here? You're using it unconditionally for
> in-kernel tracepoints. This must be bool, which in turn makes the whole
> STM thing bool afaiu.

That would make the whole STM thing a bool. I'd rather we used stm
output *conditionally* by somehow plugging into tracepoint output, say
with a jump label or something. Haven't had time to think about it yet.

Regards,
--
Alex

  reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 13:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-07 10:10 [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] Integration of trace events with System Trace IP blocks Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-07 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/4] STM trace event: Adding generic buffer interface driver Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-08 10:23   ` Alexander Shishkin
2015-07-08 14:15     ` Mathieu Poirier
2015-07-08 12:10   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-08 13:09     ` Alexander Shishkin [this message]
2015-07-07 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/4] trace: Add an entry for printing trace log to STM Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-07 15:58   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-08  8:06     ` Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-07 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/4] trace: Introduce trace log output function for STM Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-17 20:48   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-07 10:10 ` [RFC PATCH v3 4/4] trace: Trace log handler for logging into STM blocks Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-08 12:31   ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-07-08 13:06     ` Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-08 13:22       ` Ingo Molnar
2015-07-08 13:19     ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-10  9:01       ` Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-17  5:59       ` Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-17 21:07   ` Steven Rostedt
2015-07-07 11:12 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/4] Integration of trace events with System Trace IP blocks Alexander Shishkin
2015-07-08  7:42   ` Chunyan Zhang
2015-07-08 10:11     ` Alexander Shishkin

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