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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Robert Richter <robert.richter@calxeda.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] perf tools: Persistent events, changes for perf tool integration
Date: Fri, 31 May 2013 14:48:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130531124805.GA8659@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130531122443.GB17843@nazgul.tnic>


* Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 02:07:20PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > For that I'd like to create a persistent event that just keeps
> > running, and to which I can occasionally attach to read-only to see
> > what's going on and maybe attach to it read-write to drain the trace
> > entries. I.e. basically a global trace buffer. How do I achieve that
> > with this new tooling?
> 
> I have a patch which adds persistent_events= kernel command line param 
> and uses the same syntax as trace_event=. Rostedt has seen it already, I 
> need to incorporate his comments and send it out next week.

A kernel command line does not make it very practical - this needs to be 
accessible from tooling ...

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2013-05-31 12:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-05-31  9:16 [PATCH 0/4] perf tools: Persistent events, changes for perf tool integration Robert Richter
2013-05-31  9:16 ` [PATCH 1/4] perf tools: Rename flex conditions to avoid name conflicts Robert Richter
2013-05-31  9:16 ` [PATCH 2/4] perf tools: Modify event parser to update event attribute by index Robert Richter
2013-05-31  9:16 ` [PATCH 3/4] perf tools: Add attr<num> syntax to event parser Robert Richter
2013-06-03 13:54   ` Jiri Olsa
2013-06-07 14:17     ` Robert Richter
2013-05-31  9:16 ` [PATCH 4/4] perf tools: Retry mapping buffers readonly on EACCES Robert Richter
2013-06-14  2:08   ` Namhyung Kim
2013-06-14  7:29     ` Robert Richter
2013-05-31 12:07 ` [PATCH 0/4] perf tools: Persistent events, changes for perf tool integration Ingo Molnar
2013-05-31 12:24   ` Borislav Petkov
2013-05-31 12:48     ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2013-05-31 13:44       ` Robert Richter
2013-05-31 15:31       ` Borislav Petkov

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