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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@android.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/13] android: persistent_trace: ftrace into persistent_ram
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2012 14:10:02 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120307221002.GC16652@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331157503-3413-12-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org>

On Wed, Mar 07, 2012 at 01:58:21PM -0800, John Stultz wrote:
> From: Colin Cross <ccross@android.com>
> 
> persistent_trace uses the ftrace infrastructure, but traces
> into a persistent_ram buffer instead of the regular ftrace
> ringbuffer.  After a reset or panic, the trace can be
> decoded with cat /sys/kernel/debug/persistent_trace.

Has this patch been run by the tracing kernel developers?

And what's the status on merging the persistent_ram stuff in with the
in-kernel api for this type of thing?  That should then get rid of this
separate tracing module, or at the least, let it be accepted directly by
the tracing developers and not need to go through staging, right?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-07 22:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-07 21:58 [PATCH 00/13] staging: Android updates John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 01/13] android: lowmemorykiller: Fix warning on 64bit John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:04   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 22:24     ` John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 02/13] android: ram_console: set CON_ANYTIME console flag John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:07   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 03/13] android: ram_console: move footer strings John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 04/13] android: ram_console: drop early buffer support John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 05/13] android: ram_console: drop verbose ram_console support John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 06/13] android: ram_console: split out persistent ram John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 07/13] android: persistent_ram: refactor ecc support John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:21   ` Daniel Walker
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 08/13] android: persistent_ram: handle reserving and mapping memory John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:08   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 22:16     ` John Stultz
2012-03-08  1:46       ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 09/13] android: persistent_ram: make persistent_ram_write atomic John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 10/13] android: persistent_ram: add notrace to persistent_ram_write John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 11/13] android: persistent_trace: ftrace into persistent_ram John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:10   ` Greg KH [this message]
2012-03-07 22:40     ` John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 12/13] android: staging: ram_console: fix crash in ram_console_late_init John Stultz
2012-03-07 21:58 ` [PATCH 13/13] android: ram_console: honor dmesg_restrict John Stultz
2012-03-07 22:10   ` Greg KH
2012-03-07 22:11 ` [PATCH 00/13] staging: Android updates Greg KH

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