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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/2] unlikely profiler and tracer

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > two more small details i noticed:
> >
> > - does it do proper self-test? It doesnt seem so at first sight.
>
> Hmm, no. The problem is that it is a switch to be added to other
> tracers. There's not a branch profiling tracer itself. I could add
> one that just does that, and that could do the self test.

i know that it's an iter_ctrl detail, but nevertheless the branch
tracer (which is how people will be using this) should have some
self-test.

it might also make sense to just have a standalone 'branch' tracer
plugin as well. We have all the callbacks in place already, and people
might be interested in just that info - not in some other tracing
output.

Ingo


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