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    SubjectRe: PATCH] ftrace: Add a C/P state tracer to help power optimization
    On Mon, 27 Oct 2008 15:47:30 -0400
    fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote:

    >
    > Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> writes:
    >
    > > [...]
    > > --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
    > > +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c
    > > [...]
    > > @@ -427,6 +429,8 @@ static int acpi_cpufreq_target(struct
    > > cpufreq_policy *policy, }
    > > }
    > >
    > > + trace_power_mark(&it, POWER_PSTATE, next_perf_state);
    > > +
    > > switch (data->cpu_feature) {
    > > case SYSTEM_INTEL_MSR_CAPABLE:
    > > cmd.type = SYSTEM_INTEL_MSR_CAPABLE;
    > > [...]
    >
    > Is there some reason that this doesn't use tracepoints instead
    > of such a single-backend hook?

    because it's a ton simpler this way? do simple things simpe and all
    that....


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