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SubjectRe: [PATCH V2 -tip 3/4] Tracing/ftrace: Adapt mmiotrace to the new type of print_line


On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker wrote:
>
> Thanks Ingo.
>
> I'm currently testing tip/master, since tracing/pipe is merged into.
> It seems there are some locking issues that I hadn't when I tested the patches.
> Perhaps it's because of the merge with the new ring buffer.
>
> I just launched the sched_switch tracer and it worked well until 4
> seconds of execution. And after that it blocked.
> I tested too a marker message adding and it is never displayed. Worse:
> I can't break the pipe with Ctrl + C after that.
>
> When I will have some time, I will try to debug all what I find.
>

OK, I'll nuke the ring_buffer_lock :-/

The trace_pipe calls that and then calls print_trace_line which will
eventually lock the buffer again. This is a bug on my part. I'll fix that
today.

Thanks,

-- Steve



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