Re: [PATCH 3/3] tracing/function-graph-tracer: append thetracing_graph_flag

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Mon Dec 08 2008 - 09:16:16 EST



* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Impact: Provide a way to pause the function graph tracer
>
> As suggested by Steven Rostedt, the previous patch that prevented from
> spinlock function tracing shouldn't use the raw_spinlock to fix it.
> It's much better to follow lockdep with normal spinlock, so this patch
> adds a new flag for each task to make the function graph tracer able to
> be paused. We also can send an ftrace_printk whithout worrying of the
> irrelevant traced spinlock during insertion.
>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

applied to tip/tracing/function-graph-tracer, thanks Frederic!

Ingo
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