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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>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] [GIT PULL] tracing: automate output for ftrace formats
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 16:59:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090913145931.GA24187@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090913034302.134417216@goodmis.org>


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

> Ingo,
> 
> Currently, the output for the format files for the internal ftrace
> plugin entries is done by hand. This becomes difficult to maintain
> and error prone. If a change happens to a structure, it is likely
> that it will not be shown in the format file which binary readers
> of ftrace require.
> 
> This patch series implements the logic that is used by TRACE_EVENT
> to use macros that create the structures and those same macros also
> show the output layout in the format files. This guarantees that the
> structures and the output formats remain in-sync.
> 
> Again, this is based off of tip/tracing/core2
> 
> Please pull the latest tip/tracing/core3 tree, which can be found at:
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git
> tip/tracing/core3

Pulled, thanks a lot Steve!

	Ingo

      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-09-13 14:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-13  3:43 [PATCH 0/6] [GIT PULL] tracing: automate output for ftrace formats Steven Rostedt
2009-09-13  3:43 ` [PATCH 1/6] tracing: allow filter predicates to handle ksym symbols Steven Rostedt
2009-09-13  3:43 ` [PATCH 2/6] tracing: use macros to create internal ftrace entry ring buffer structures Steven Rostedt
2009-09-13  3:43 ` [PATCH 3/6] tracing: show details of structures within the ftrace structures Steven Rostedt
2009-09-13  3:43 ` [PATCH 4/6] tracing: use the new trace_entries.h to create format files Steven Rostedt
2009-09-13  3:43 ` [PATCH 5/6] tracing: remove trace_event_types.h Steven Rostedt
2009-09-13  3:43 ` [PATCH 6/6] tracing: add filter event logic to special, mmiotrace and boot tracers Steven Rostedt
2009-09-13 14:59 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]

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