From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760321AbXIZTRc (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:17:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754950AbXIZTRZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:17:25 -0400 Received: from tomts43.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.110]:60102 "EHLO tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754815AbXIZTRY (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:17:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:17:21 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: "David J. Wilder" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] A kernel tracing interface - (updated) Message-ID: <20070926191721.GA6399@Krystal> References: <1190830949.1232.11.camel@lc4eb748232119.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1190830949.1232.11.camel@lc4eb748232119.ibm.com> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 15:16:20 up 58 days, 19:35, 2 users, load average: 0.62, 0.72, 0.60 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * David J. Wilder (dwilder@us.ibm.com) wrote: > These patches provide a kernel tracing interface called "trace". > > (update) Moved the sample code to the new samples\ subdir > > The motivation for "trace" is to: > - Provide a simple set of tracing primitives that will utilize the high- > performance and low-overhead of relayfs for passing traces data from > kernel to user space. > - Provide a common user interface for managing kernel traces. > - Allow for binary as well as ascii trace data. > - Incorporate features from the systemtap runtime that are > useful to others. > > Patches are against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 > > Summary of patches: > [patch 1/3] Trace code and documentation > [patch 2/3] Relay Reset Consumed > [patch 3/3] Trace sample > > Note: Patches 1/3 and 2/3 must be applied together. > > Note: The following patches must be applied with 3/3. > [patch 3/5] Add samples subdir > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/157 I guess you mean: [patch 3/5] Add samples subdir (updated) http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/366 (please try it with this new version, it should work as is..) Mathieu > [patch 4/5] Linux Kernel Markers - Samples > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/166 > > Signed-off-by: David Wilder > > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68