Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer

From: Baolin Wang
Date: Tue Nov 29 2016 - 03:23:33 EST


On 29 November 2016 at 15:23, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> * John Stultz <john.stultz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>
>> For system debugging, we sometimes want to know who sets one
>> alarm timer, the time of the timer, when the timer started and
>> fired and so on. Thus adding tracepoints can help us trace the
>> alarmtimer information.
>
> s/one alarm timer/an alarm timer
>
>> For example, when we debug the system supend/resume, if the
>> system is always resumed by RTC alarm, we can find out which
>> process set the alarm timer to resume system by below trace log:
>
> s/when we debug the system/when we debug system
> s/supend/suspend
> s/resume system/resume the system
> s/by below trace log/by the trace log below
>
>> From the trace log, we can find out the 'Binder:3292_2' process
>> set one alarm timer which resumes the system.
>
> s/set one alarm timer/set an alarm timer
>
>> Changes since v4:
>> - Initialize 'type' to -1 and rename it in alarmtimer_suspend().
>> - Fix typo in subject line.
>>
>> Changes since v3:
>> - Remove the "ALARM_" prefix in the string.
>> - Add the ACK by Steven Rostedt.
>>
>> Changes since v2:
>> - Save time as s64 type.
>> - Remove 'process_name' parameter and add 'now' parameter.
>> - Rename the trace event name.
>> - Remove restart trace event.
>> - Other optimization.
>
> I find it really sad that a patch that has gone through 4 iterations still has so
> many typos and grammar errors in its changelog :-(

Really sorry for these elementary errors, I will fix these errors in
new patch. Sorry for troubles again.

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Baolin.wang
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