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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: updates to tip
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 16:21:03 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090116152103.GA28643@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.10.0901160929300.22303@gandalf.stny.rr.com>


* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

> > maybe we could drive this via the filter API? Something like:
> > 
> >    echo "*btrfs*:stacktrace" >> set_filter_functions
> > 
> > Would automatically mean that those functions will all generate 
> > stacktraces too. Note how safe this API is by default: the filter is used 
> > for a narrow scope of functions anwyay. To get it for all kernel functions 
> > one would have to do:
> > 
> >    echo "*:stacktrace" >> set_filter_functions
> > 
> > Which one cannot do accidentally.
> > 
> > What do you think?
> 
> Now that I see only a 1/2 sec lag, do you still think this is necessary?
> 
> Maybe I should go back and see why it was so bad before?
> 
> But I do notice that not all functions produce a valid stack trace. 
> Maybe it would be better to add that api :-?

yes - i think that API would be more intuitive, and that way people could 
mix more interesting functions (with stack traces) with less important 
functions (no stack traces).

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-16 15:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-16  0:40 [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: updates to tip Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16  0:40 ` [PATCH 1/2] ftrace: fix trace_output Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16  1:40   ` Andrew Morton
2009-01-16  1:46     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16  0:40 ` [PATCH 2/2] ftrace: add stack trace to function tracer Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16  0:48   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16 10:08   ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-01-16 14:28     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16 11:19   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 11:23 ` [PATCH 0/2] ftrace: updates to tip Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 13:08   ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2009-01-16 13:10     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 14:32   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16 15:21     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-01-16 15:53       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16 16:02         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 16:03           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 16:22           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-16 16:30             ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 22:59               ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-17  1:14                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-01-17 13:48                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-01-17 22:34                   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-18  7:27                     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-16 21:47 ` Chris Mason
2009-01-16 22:26   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-01-17  1:30     ` Chris Mason
2009-01-17  2:38     ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2009-01-19 13:31       ` Ingo Molnar

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