From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Frédéric Weisbecker" <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch -tip 3/3] Tracing/ftrace: Don't consume entries unhandled by mmiotrace
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 19:47:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080927174756.GF26047@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c62985530809250913q227a5876k19b1b0ec591ad3cd@mail.gmail.com>
* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/9/25 Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi>:
> > We can (must) return to this if/when multiple tracers are allowed
> > to be active simultaneously. But in the current situation, I do not
> > see a way to trace more than one thing, but I haven't really looked
> > into the other tracers.
>
> You can enable another tracer simultaneously. I never tried it but you
> can launch one from debugfs and another from kernel code for example.
> The new boot tracer will have to launch the sched_switch tracer.
hm, right now i can see a lot of problems with that approach - the
buffers are partly per tracer and partly global.
the new trace-ringbuffer design Steve is working on would abstract away
this complication - then we could make tracers truly independent
entities.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-27 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-25 12:28 [Patch -tip 3/3] Tracing/ftrace: Don't consume entries unhandled by mmiotrace Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-09-25 12:56 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-09-25 14:34 ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-09-25 14:44 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-09-25 15:36 ` Pekka Paalanen
2008-09-25 16:13 ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-09-27 17:47 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-09-27 18:25 ` Steven Rostedt
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