Re: [patch 6/9] LTTng instrumentation - timer

Ingo Molnar
2009-03-24T20:48:42Z

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > the init methods are missing from your patch entirely - and the rest
> > is partially incomplete as well.
> >
> > Instrumentation of the del_timer() variants is missing. For a
> > complete lifetime analysis of timers this cannot be left out.
>
> Look at the debugobjects hooks. They cover the complete timer life
> time already.
>
> Piggypacking tracepoints on those would simplify maintenance and
> reduce the number of extra lines in the code.

makes sense. They dont cover itimers nor hrtimers though.

Ingo