Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] tracing: Have trace_printk()s in the events/ directory

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:41 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 22:58 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > For example, I added a trace_printk() in kernel/sched.c at line 2180
> > and it creates:
> > 
> > # ls /debug/tracing/events/printk/kernel/sched.c/2180/
> > enable  format
> > 
> > The format is the printk format:
> > 
> > # cat /debug/tracing/events/printk/kernel/sched.c/2180/format 
> > "migrate task %s:%d"
> 
> *groan*, so you're creating a tracepoint per instance?
> 
> That's going to be massive pain for perf.. I really don't see the point
> in splitting all that out.

a) The file directory was what was asked about in the referenced email.
b) This is just an example of a way to display it to the user, which
seems to be very intuitive.
c) Perf can implement the details anyway it wants. It can make a single
tracepoint callback and have the enabling of the points as a special
filter.
d) This was just an RFC that Frederic asked if I would do. I thought it
would be a fun challenge and did it. Let it bit rot in hell for all I
care, I wasn't taking it any further anyway.

-- Steve