Re: request to add trace off and trace on with events

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 13:56 -0700, Tim Bird wrote:

> I'm not sure either.  In general I dislike proliferating
> pseudo-files.  But if the tracing filter conditional is
> different from the trigger conditional, it might be needed
> to have something separate.

I was thinking of keeping the filter trigger the trigger too.

I think we talked about this in the past. Where the "trigger" file would
default be print, but could also add other triggers to it. Thus, you do
not need to print when the event is hit (with filters). I think I
originally called this a "command", but multiple commands could perform
this.

> 
> In KFT there were some non-event related trigger conditionals,
> like - start tracing after 20 milliseconds and stop after
> 80 milliseconds.
> 
> Another thing I considered for KFT triggers, but didn't get
> around to implementing, was countdown triggers - such as
> "start tracing on the 5th execution of do_fork".
> 
> With the function or function_graph tracer, since the buffer
> overflows quickly, these kinds of triggered trace starts and stops
> can help pinpoint the data you need.

Try:

echo 'try_to_wake_up:traceon:5' 'schedule:traceoff:5' > set_ftrace_filter

;-)

-- Steve