Re: [PATCH 24/36] printk: Remove trace_.*_rcuidle() usage

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Thu Jun 09 2022 - 09:02:36 EST


On Thu 2022-06-09 20:30:58, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote:
> My emails are getting rejected... Let me try web-interface

Bad day for mail sending. I have problems as well ;-)

> Kudos to Petr for the questions and thanks to PeterZ for the answers.
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2022 at 7:02 PM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > This is the tracepoint used to spool all of printk into ftrace, I
> > suspect there's users, but I haven't used it myself.
>
> I'm somewhat curious whether we can actually remove that trace event.

Good question.

Well, I think that it might be useful. It allows to see trace and
printk messages together.

It was ugly when it was in the console code. The new location
in vprintk_store() allows to have it even "correctly" sorted
(timestamp) against other tracing messages.

Best Regards,
Petr