Re: [PATCH] tracing: Kernel access to ftrace instances

[divya . indi]

Sure, thanks for taking the time to review.

There are a few issues with the patch styling and some minor modifications. I will shortly send the v2 for the same.


Regards,
Divya


On 03/19/2019 01:16 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 16:35:25 -0700
> Divya Indi <divya.indi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Ftrace provides the feature âinstancesâ that provides the capability to
> > create multiple Ftrace ring buffers. However, currently these buffers
> > are created/accessed via userspace only. The kernel APIs providing these
> > features are not exported, hence cannot be used by other kernel
> > components.
> >
> > This patch aims to extend this infrastructure to provide the
> > flexibility to create/log/remove/ enable-disable existing trace events
> > to these buffers from within the kernel.
> Thanks for sending this. I'm currently working on some other changes,
> but will look in this when I'm finished with the other work. Should be
> within this week.
>
> -- Steve