From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754993AbYIWDdX (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:33:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754334AbYIWDdP (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:33:15 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:42225 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753338AbYIWDdP (ORCPT ); Mon, 22 Sep 2008 23:33:15 -0400 To: "Martin Bligh" Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , "Linus Torvalds" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Mathieu Desnoyers" , "Steven Rostedt" , od@novell.com, "Frank Ch. Eigler" Subject: Re: Unified tracing buffer From: Andi Kleen References: <33307c790809191433w246c0283l55a57c196664ce77@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2008 05:33:10 +0200 In-Reply-To: <33307c790809191433w246c0283l55a57c196664ce77@mail.gmail.com> (Martin Bligh's message of "Fri, 19 Sep 2008 14:33:42 -0700") Message-ID: <878wtjr0y1.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org "Martin Bligh" writes: > During kernel summit and Plumbers conference, Linus and others > expressed a desire for a unified > tracing buffer system for multiple tracing applications (eg ftrace, > lttng, systemtap, blktrace, etc) to use. This is what relayfs always was promised to be, but apparently never quite became. But before adding a new one I would recommend to remove relayfs first. -Andi