Re: Unified tracing buffer

From: Olaf Dabrunz
Date: Sat Sep 20 2008 - 03:44:36 EST


On 19-Sep-08, Martin Bligh wrote:
> >> 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)

Ah, that is right. We can distinguish them.

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Olaf Dabrunz (od/odabrunz), SUSE Linux Products GmbH, NÃrnberg

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