Re: [PATCH 1/5] tracing: Add support for creating hist trigger variables from literal

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue Oct 19 2021 - 17:26:05 EST


On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 14:21:04 -0700
Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Addition and subtraction are already supported operations. The use
> case given in Documentation/trace/histogram.rst is for calculating
> latencies. I don't have a use case where the constants may be needed
> in the addition/subtraction, but for simplicity and completeness we
> support them for all operations.

Perhaps we should state that it's mostly added for completeness then.

Thanks,

-- Steve