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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: jbaron@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu, rostedt@goodmis.org,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] dynamic debug - adding ring buffer storage support
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 13:06:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws0fcixd.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1261481526-17630-1-git-send-email-jolsa@redhat.com> (Jiri Olsa's message of "Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:32:06 +0100")

Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> as I use dynamic debug sometimes, I thought it could be useful having
> the possibility to store the output somewhere else than dmesg.
>
> The attached patch implements support for storing dynamic debug
> messages to the ring buffer.
>
> The dynamic debug allows simple addition of new flags,
> so I added 'r' flag for ring buffer storage.
>
> I used the ring buffer implementation from trace framework.
>
> hopefuly this could be any use for others as well...
> plz let me know what you think,

The basic idea sounds good, but doing it all inline is a horrible 
idea. That will bloat the kernel considerably because all
users have to expand this code.

I would suggest to implement an out of line dyndebug_printk()
which does all of this out of line.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-12-22 12:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-22 11:32 [RFC PATCH] dynamic debug - adding ring buffer storage support Jiri Olsa
2009-12-22 12:06 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-12-22 15:28   ` Jiri Olsa
2009-12-22 15:39 ` Jason Baron
2009-12-22 16:13   ` Jiri Olsa
2009-12-28  9:24     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-12-30 22:50       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-12-31  1:44         ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-05 15:14           ` Jason Baron
2010-01-05  6:05         ` Ingo Molnar

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