Tapset for probing IRQs, workqueues, etc
Prerna Saxena
prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Mon Nov 9 06:13:00 GMT 2009
On 10/30/2009 04:44 AM, Josh Stone wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 08:55 AM, Prerna Saxena wrote:
>> Hi ,
>> Posting a new version of the IRQ tapset.
>> I have not included the flags string on purpose for this probe point,
>> cos I think that one might need to look up the flags in specific
>> debugging scenarios only. It would not be required in most commonly used
>> cases, such as the attached example. However, I have documented the
>> function both inline in the tapset documentation and also in the man
>> pages, so that a script developer wanting to display a formatted string
>> can call the function when needed.
>
> It wouldn't hurt to have the tapset provide it as something like
> flags_str. That makes it more obvious for the user, and our optimizer
> should remove it automatically if it's not used.
>
Thanks!
Fixed in commit a476086d1ef0448c86e466f5955f78d282b473fd for new IRQ tapset.
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Prerna Saxena
Linux Technology Centre,
IBM Systems and Technology Lab,
Bangalore, India
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