Re: [PATCH 2/2] tracing/function-graph-tracer: improve durationoutput

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Dec 03 2008 - 09:22:46 EST



* Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 2008/12/3 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > Actually, I was also thinking of keeping the CPU number in front:
> >
> > ------------------------------------------
> > 0) cat-2796 => events/-9
> > ------------------------------------------
> >
> > This way we can easily grep for a common CPU and still get the context
> > switches:
> >
> > grep '^0)' trace > /tmp/trace0
>
> I agree. More easy to grep. Ingo, Peter, others, what do you think?

sure.

> > Of course it will probably also work without the '^' now, but then it
> > might grab ftrace_printks with a '0)' if we add those.
>
>
> I proposed a solution for ftrace_printk (which I planned to implement
> this evening). Since we are in a C-style output, that would be good to
> put the ftrace_printk as /* C comments */ inside just below the
> function that called it. Like this:
>
> func_that_called_ftrace_printk {
> /* Message from ftrace_printk */
> }
>
> This way we keep the idea of comment which comes along the role of
> ftrace_printk and we know
> which function called it, at which depth.....
>
> Do you like it this way?

yeah, that would be lovely to have too.

Ingo
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