Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] PM/runtime: introduce trace points for tracing rpm_* functions

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Tuesday, September 27, 2011, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 22:36 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> > > 	TP_printk("%pS:%s ret=%d", (void *)__entry->ip, __get_str(name),
> > > 		__entry->ret)
> > > 
> > > try that.
> > 
> > Well, that certainly will work, but is it the right fix?
> 
> Hehe, yes!  The pS means to take a pointer and return the string version
> of the address. Like "schedule+0x3a". __entry->ip is the address of the
> function that called it __THIS_IP__ but we want to convert that into a
> string name.
> 
> We use ip because both perf and trace-cmd should be smart enough to
> parse it too. As they both store the kallsyms into the data file.
> 
> The (void *) is used because pS wants a pointer, and we stored the
> address as an unsigned long.

OK, good.

I've applied both patches (with the above fix folded into the first one)
to linux-pm/pm-runtime (and merged into my linux-next branch), so they will be
pushed for 3.2.

Thanks,
Rafael