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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Zhaolei <zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>, Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/lockdep: turn lock->name into an array
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:27:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1239989260.23397.4848.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E8BB98.3090901@goop.org>

On Fri, 2009-04-17 at 10:25 -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > We could zap all pending trace entries on module unload (it is a 
> > rare operation)
> 
> ....Unless you're trying to trace something across a module unload.  I 
> don't know if its at all practical, but it would be nice to just zap the 
> pointers within the buffer, rather than the whole buffer.

I think the new __string() thing that's in the works will avoid the
whole problem by copying the string into the buffer, instead of keeping
a reference.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-17 17:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-13 22:36 [PATCH] tracing/lockdep: turn lock->name into an array Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-13 22:42 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-13 22:58   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14  7:48   ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-14 10:27     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14 21:22       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-13 23:01 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14  0:24   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-14  6:35 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-14  6:53   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-14  6:56     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-04-14  7:20     ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-04-14 10:25       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-17 17:25     ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2009-04-17 17:27       ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-04-17 17:36         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-17 20:29           ` Frederic Weisbecker

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