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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:05:29 +0100
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/ftrace: add missing wake-up on some callsites
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On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:51:30AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > > 
> > > Perhaps we could add these callsites back, but we would need to update 
> > > trace_wake_up.
> > > 
> > > Have trace_wake_up set a flag instead, and add a tracepoint around the 
> > > scheduler (outside the grabbing of runqueue locks), that will have a 
> > > callback to the tracing code. That call back can perform the wakeups.
> > > 
> > > How does that sound?
> > 
> > 
> > That sounds good but only for these particular tracers I guess.
> 
> OK, what about making a trace_delay_wake_up()?


Which would send a delayed work to wake up?

 
> -- Steve
>