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Subject: Re: Unified tracing buffer
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>> Sorry, probably lots of implicit assumptions in there that I forgot to explain
>
> Ids for event types. Either allocated dynamically, if the tracer needs
> new ids on each use, or statically assigned for others (like my fctrace
> or Steven's ftrace, I believe). Should we have a reserved range / registry
> for static allocation, maybe something like a very simple version of
> devices.txt?

Sure, but it's per-tracer, so hopefully won't be a big problem (eg fctrace
would have a different event-id namespace from blktrace)