Re: [PATCH 0/3] ftrace: overrun accounting and trace_pipe headers

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Apr 22 2008 - 09:34:21 EST



* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The first patch in this series adds accounting to record overruns.
> That is where the writing catches up to the reading of the buffer.
> This really only matters for trace_pipe since that's a consumer /
> producer output file.
>
> The next patch adds new methods for the plugins to hook into the
> open_pipe and open_read, to let a plugin produce a header. The
> open_read method can also be used to do something when overruns are
> detected.

thanks, applied.

> The last patch is a test patch AND SHOULD NOT BE APPLIED. It is just
> an example in how to use the new methods to produce a header. It
> simply makes the ftrace tracer produce a simple "Test header" before
> any output.

thanks, not applied ;-)

Ingo
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