Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:50:18 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 00/14] perf tools: Introduce new 'ftrace' command |
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* Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> wrote:
> Hello, > > On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 17:30 +0900, Namhyung Kim wrote: > >> This patchset implements a front-end tool for kernel's ftrace. It > >> uses function_graph tracer by default and normal function tracer is > >> also supported. (Of course you need to enable those tracers in your > >> kernel first.) > > On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > > Very nice Namhyung, thanks for doing this. I did a quick run through of > > the patches and I have no complaints about them. I'm not sure how the > > others will feel about it. > > I also skimmed through the patches and they look like a reasonable > starting point. So FWIW, > > Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> > > Are there any plans in trying to consolidate 'perf trace' and this? As > a user I don't really care what the underlying mechanism and would > like things to just work out of the box.
Exactly. I'd love to see ftrace and perf trace unified.
I have no objections against having a 'perf ftrace' interim step - as long as it's really a temporary migration construct, not something we intend to keep forever.
Thanks,
Ingo
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