From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760339AbXIZSWv (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:22:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756034AbXIZSWj (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:22:39 -0400 Received: from e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:60319 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756015AbXIZSWj (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:22:39 -0400 Subject: [PATCH 0/3] A kernel tracing interface - (updated) From: "David J. Wilder" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, randy.dunlap@oracle.com, hch@infradead.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:29 -0700 Message-Id: <1190830949.1232.11.camel@lc4eb748232119.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-27.rhel4.6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org These patches provide a kernel tracing interface called "trace". (update) Moved the sample code to the new samples\ subdir The motivation for "trace" is to: - Provide a simple set of tracing primitives that will utilize the high- performance and low-overhead of relayfs for passing traces data from kernel to user space. - Provide a common user interface for managing kernel traces. - Allow for binary as well as ascii trace data. - Incorporate features from the systemtap runtime that are useful to others. Patches are against 2.6.23-rc6-mm1 Summary of patches: [patch 1/3] Trace code and documentation [patch 2/3] Relay Reset Consumed [patch 3/3] Trace sample Note: Patches 1/3 and 2/3 must be applied together. Note: The following patches must be applied with 3/3. [patch 3/5] Add samples subdir http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/157 [patch 4/5] Linux Kernel Markers - Samples http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/25/166 Signed-off-by: David Wilder