From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>, Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
Arun Sharma <asharma@fb.com>, Michael Rubin <mrubin@google.com>,
David Sharp <dhsharp@google.com>,
Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>,
Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>, Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Our failure on tracing tools unification (Was: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/15] tools: Unify perf and trace-cmd trace event format parsing v2)
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:10:12 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.02.1204241014471.2542@ionos> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335193719.28150.171.camel@twins>
On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-04-23 at 16:47 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Ingo doesn't seem to want this library outside perf in order to avoid
> > the fragmentation of the efforts on tracing tools.
>
> I really don't see the point.. parsing /debug/tracing/events/*/format
> gunk really is separate, furthermore things like powertop et al already
> are separate projects and really need this lib.
>
> I mean, who gives a bother where all that crap lives, if its in the
> kernel tree its all close enough to keep an eye on.. its not like
> kernel/events/ and kernel/trace/ are the same directory.
>
> Ingo, please could you lighten up and let people get stuff done? Merging
> the two implementations, wherever the result lives, is a better
> situation that two dis-joint implementations. So either let Frederic
> work or do it yourself but don't hand-wave and road-block stuff.
So you are saying that we have patches for a fully unified library and
block it just because we have religious debates about the directory in
which the library code should be?
Some folks should really visit their shrinks!
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 9:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-05 22:47 [RFC][PATCH 00/15] tools: Unify perf and trace-cmd trace event format parsing v2 Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 01/15] perf: Separate out trace-cmd parse-events from perf files Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-06 11:36 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-06 15:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 02/15] tools/events: Add files to create libtraceevent.a Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-06 0:08 ` David Ahern
2012-04-06 0:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-06 0:24 ` David Ahern
2012-04-06 11:40 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-06 13:21 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-06 22:15 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-07 9:08 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-11 15:20 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-04-11 15:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-11 17:47 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-11 17:54 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 03/15] perf: Build libtraceevent.a Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-06 11:45 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-06 15:26 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-06 15:51 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-09 17:10 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 04/15] events: Update tools/lib/traceevent to work with perf Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-06 11:48 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-09 17:11 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 05/15] perf: Have perf use the new libtraceevent.a library Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 06/15] perf/events: Add flag to produce nsec output Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 07/15] perf/events: Add flag/symbol format_flags Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:47 ` [PATCH 08/15] perf/events: Correct size given to memset Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-06 11:24 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-06 12:00 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-06 12:27 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-05 22:48 ` [PATCH 09/15] parse-events: Handle invalid opcode parsing gracefully Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:48 ` [PATCH 10/15] parse-events: Handle opcode parsing error Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:48 ` [PATCH 11/15] parse-events: Let pevent_free() take a NULL pointer Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:48 ` [PATCH 12/15] parse-events: Support '+' opcode in print format Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:48 ` [PATCH 13/15] parse-events: Allow '*' and '/' operations in TP_printk Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:48 ` [PATCH 14/15] parse-event: Fix memset pointer size bug in handle Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-05 22:48 ` [PATCH 15/15] parse-events: Rename struct record to struct pevent_record Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-06 3:07 ` [RFC][PATCH 00/15] tools: Unify perf and trace-cmd trace event format parsing v2 David Sharp
2012-04-06 15:11 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-09 10:13 ` Namhyung Kim
2012-04-23 14:47 ` Our failure on tracing tools unification (Was: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/15] tools: Unify perf and trace-cmd trace event format parsing v2) Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-23 15:08 ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-04-23 15:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-23 16:07 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-04-24 9:10 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2012-04-25 8:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-04-25 12:39 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2012-04-25 14:19 ` Our failure on tracing tools unification Frank Ch. Eigler
2012-04-25 16:37 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
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