[Bug runtime/7043] Support unified trace buffer

fche at redhat dot com sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Fri Jan 30 02:16:00 GMT 2009


------- Additional Comments From fche at redhat dot com  2009-01-29 22:55 -------
Let's assess whether the ring buffer widget, or the larger control
structures around it in ftrace, are relevant/useful to systemtap.

We need at least:
- access to the ftrace buffering stuff from modules
- the ring buffers need to contain formatted ascii, since that is what scripts
  produce, and not rely on subsequent trace_iter printing like current ftrace
  engines; maybe reuse ftrace_printk
- per-script trace files (instead of /debugfs/tracing/trace intermingled) ...
  unless some goofy multiplexing is the only way
- probably no connection with the overall control switch
  /tracing/tracing_enabled), since scripts come and go at any time


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