From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759260AbXIZSu6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755406AbXIZSuu (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50:50 -0400 Received: from agminet01.oracle.com ([141.146.126.228]:21302 "EHLO agminet01.oracle.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755001AbXIZSuu (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 14:50:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:41:08 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap To: "David J. Wilder" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hch@infradead.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] A kernel tracing interface - (updated) Message-Id: <20070926114108.6ac77ce5.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> In-Reply-To: <1190830949.1232.11.camel@lc4eb748232119.ibm.com> References: <1190830949.1232.11.camel@lc4eb748232119.ibm.com> Organization: Oracle Linux Eng. X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.6 (GTK+ 2.8.10; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 11:22:29 -0700 David J. Wilder wrote: > 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. Patch 2 provides an interface that patch 1 needs, correct? So yes, patches 1 & 2 need to be applied together (merged), or their order could be reversed, yes? Can't the Relay patch be merged standalone without breaking anything? > 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 --- ~Randy Phaedrus says that Quality is about caring.