Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jul 2015 19:53:26 +0300 | Subject | Re: [Patch RFC 0/2] tracing: allow disabling compilation of specific trace systems | From | Tal Shorer <> |
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On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:41:17 +0300 > Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@gmail.com> wrote: > >> ping? > > I'm planning on looking at this after I've finished everything for the > merge window. This came over the weekend (always a bad time), and the > merge window opened. All new code needs to take a backseat while the > merge window is opened. > > I may not get to this till next week. Feel free to ping me again then. ping > > -- Steve > > >> >> On Sat, Jun 20, 2015 at 11:21 PM, Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Currently, enabling CONFIG_TRACING on a system comes as all-or-nothing: either >> > tracepoints for all subsystems are compiled (with CONFIG_TRACING) or none of >> > them do (without it). >> > >> > This caused me an unacceptable performance penalty (obviously SOME penalty was >> > expected, but not one so severe) which made me revert the changes in >> > configuration. >> > >> > The first patch in this series modifies the files that actually define the >> > tracepoint to look for a preprocessor macro NOTRACE and define nops (as if >> > CONFIG_TRACING was not set) instead of them. >> > >> > The second patch provides an example of how I see this working, with the gpio >> > subsystem as the example for absolutely no reason. >> > If this idea is deemed worth the time by the community, I'll create patches for >> > the other subsystems. >> > >> > Tal Shorer (2): >> > tracing: allow disabling compilation of specific trace systems >> > tracing: gpio: add Kconfig option for enabling/disabling trace events >> > >> > drivers/gpio/Kconfig | 6 ++++++ >> > include/linux/tracepoint.h | 6 +++--- >> > include/trace/define_trace.h | 2 +- >> > include/trace/events/gpio.h | 4 ++++ >> > 4 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) >> > >> > -- >> > 2.2.2 >> > >
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