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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>,
	Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] tracing: Introduce TRACE_EVENT_INJECT
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:57:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100211185744.GD4915@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1265810706.24386.58.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>

On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 09:05:06AM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-02-10 at 11:04 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > > We can add a register_event_injector later. For now, why not just add
> > > the TRACE_EVENT() and then hook to it in perf using the normal
> > > tracepoint mechanism.
> > > 
> > > You could add some macro around the trace_init_lock_class() call that
> > > would facilitate finding all the locks you need. This would probably be
> > > a bit more straight forward than to overload TRACE_EVENT() again.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > I'm not sure what you mean by that.
> 
> Looking back at where trace_lock_class_init() was placed, you don't need
> a wrapper. But instead, why not just have perf hook directly into the
> trace_lock_class_init trace point, and do its injection directly.
> Instead of needing to add some hack to TRACE_EVENT()?


We could. But we expect further events may need such catch-up by
injection system. And ftrace will also need to perform this injection.

That's why I think something more generic would be more reasonable.


  reply	other threads:[~2010-02-11 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-03  9:14 [RFC GIT PULL] perf/trace/lock optimization/scalability improvements Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 01/11] tracing: Add lock_class_init event Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 02/11] tracing: Introduce TRACE_EVENT_INJECT Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-05 14:08   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-05 14:47   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-05 14:53     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-05 15:07       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-06 12:20         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-06 13:19           ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-10 10:04             ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-10 14:05               ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-11 18:57                 ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-02-11 19:23                   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 03/11] tracing: Inject lock_class_init events on registration Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-05 14:13   ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-05 14:30     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-05 14:44       ` Steven Rostedt
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 04/11] tracing: Add lock class id in lock_acquire event Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 05/11] perf: New PERF_EVENT_IOC_INJECT ioctl Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:19   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 06/11] perf: Handle injection ioctl with trace events Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 07/11] perf: Handle injection iotcl for tracepoints from perf record Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 08/11] perf/lock: Add support for lock_class_init events Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 09/11] tracing: Remove the lock name from most lock events Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 10/11] tracing/perf: Fix lock events recursions in the fast path Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-04 15:47   ` Paul E. McKenney
2010-02-05  2:38     ` Lai Jiangshan
2010-02-05  9:45       ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-05  9:50         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-05 10:49           ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-05 12:10             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-05 12:12               ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-05 13:01                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-06 11:12                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-06 11:24                     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-06 11:40                       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-06 14:17                         ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-06 16:10                           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-07  9:45                             ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-10 10:17                               ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-28 22:24                   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03  9:14 ` [PATCH 11/11] perf lock: Drop the buffers multiplexing dependency Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03 10:25 ` [RFC GIT PULL] perf/trace/lock optimization/scalability improvements Jens Axboe
2010-02-03 20:50   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03 21:21     ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-03 22:13       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-04 19:40     ` Jens Axboe
2010-02-06 10:37       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03 10:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-03 21:26   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-03 10:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-03 22:07   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-02-04  6:33     ` Ingo Molnar
2010-02-07 17:10     ` Peter Zijlstra
2010-02-10 10:49       ` Frederic Weisbecker

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