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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 2/3] perf: Take a hot regs snapshot for trace
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On Thu, 2010-03-04 at 22:37 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:

> > I can keep the debug/tracing/events/* as is too, where the format and id
> > just call the same routines that the eventfs calls, but add the enable
> > and filter to be specific to ftrace.
> 
> 
> The /debug/tracing/events could contain symlinks for the format
> files so that the rest can stay there.

Symlinks buy us nothing but headaches. This is a pseudo filesystem, we
can use the same code that generates the file with no extra overhead.

-- Steve