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.
next prev parent 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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