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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	fweisbec@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing/filters: allow event filters to be set only when not tracing
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 14:24:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090401122408.GG12966@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1238390546.6368.65.camel@bookworm>


* Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch adds code allowing the event filter to be set only if 
> there's no active tracing going on.

> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_events.c
> @@ -498,6 +498,9 @@ event_filter_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *ubuf, size_t cnt,
>  	struct filter_pred *pred;
>  	int err;
>  
> +	if (tracing_is_enabled() && (!tracer_is_nop() || call->enabled))
> +		return -EBUSY;

hm, but it would be the normal use-case to set filters on the fly. 
To experiment around with them and shape them until the output is 
just right. Having to turn the tracer on/off during that seems quite 
counterproductive to that use-case.

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-01 12:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-30  5:22 [PATCH] tracing/filters: allow event filters to be set only when not tracing Tom Zanussi
2009-04-01 12:24 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-04-02  6:22   ` Tom Zanussi
2009-04-03 13:59     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-03 14:12       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-04  7:32         ` Tom Zanussi
2009-04-04 15:49           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-04 17:02             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-05  7:34             ` Tom Zanussi
2009-04-05 17:11               ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-06 15:59                 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-06 16:15                   ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-06 19:30                     ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-06 19:44                       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-06 19:52                         ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-06 20:15                           ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-06 23:58                             ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-07  0:34                               ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-07  1:27                                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-03 16:26       ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-04-03 16:37         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-03 16:43           ` Steven Rostedt
2009-04-03 18:05             ` Paul E. McKenney

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