Re: [Patch -tip 1/3] Tracing/ftrace: Relay unhandled entry output

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Sat Sep 27 2008 - 13:53:25 EST



* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2008/9/25 Pekka Paalanen <pq@xxxxxx>:
> > Oh cool, sounds like I should try linux-next when I can.
>
>
> It is on -tip if you want :)
>
> So, unless someone is opposed to. I will send a patch which define
> three possible values
> for the print_line callback. I will define these values on trace.h
> Why not:
>
> #define TRACE_TYPE_PARTIAL_LINE 0
> #define TRACE_TYPE_HANDLED 1
> #define TRACE_TYPE_UNHANDLED 2 => will relay on default functions
>
> Hmm I'm questionning about the relevance of this kind of patch since
> the tracing API is in refactoring...

dont worry about that aspect too much, the ring buffer API will be a
transparent replacement, so try to iterate whatever is there at the
moment towards perfection :)

Ingo
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