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From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To: Ryan Wang <openspace.wang@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org
Subject: Re: When and how to use ftrace?
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 2010 22:42:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1276051329.13426.48.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik0UvRGmGeZOMaJVaoHk-lv2V8umAF3EIckh9CT@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 09:38 +0800, Ryan Wang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>        I'm new to kernel development, and I'm learning
> ftrace recently. I have one question:
>        When to use ftrace, or in which cases ftrace can be
> more efficient?

I can't really answer these questions without knowing what you want to
do?

ftrace allows you to see what is happening inside the kernel. What would
you like to see?

-- Steve



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-09  2:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-09  1:38 Ryan Wang
2010-06-09  2:42 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-06-09  5:32   ` Ryan Wang
     [not found]     ` <AANLkTik4kdjh1Wmo704_3-jzxmMUd8vGce9Mdojveml1@mail.gmail.com>
2010-06-09  8:14       ` Ryan Wang
2010-06-09  8:59         ` wu zhangjin
2010-06-09  9:22           ` Ryan Wang

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