Re: [PATCH v1] arch/x86: port I/O tracing on x86

[Dan Raymond]

Can I get more feedback on this please?  I think I've addressed all of
Peter Zijlstra's concerns:

1) cannot use early_console->write()

   That is not true.  Everything that includes boot.h (ie.
   'arch/x86/boot/early_serial_console.c') will not change due to the
   '#ifdef BOOT_BOOT_H' guard.  Also tracing will not be compiled in
   unless 'CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS' is true.  Finally, tracing will be
   disabled at boot until the user mounts the tracefs and explicitly
   enables 'portio' events.  When tracing is disabled the trace
   routines execute a nop instruction and return immediately.

2) tracing relies on RCU which might not be alive yet and might
   itself be the problem

   RCU is not needed unless/until tracing is enabled.  I also
   demonstrated that port I/O tracing works correctly during boot by
   testing this patch with "trace_event=portio" on the command line.

I plan to submit another patch due to the compiler warning reported
by the "kernel test robot".  Before I do that I would like to get
more feedback so I can address any other concerns or suggestions.