Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756162AbbGFQxd (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2015 12:53:33 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f178.google.com ([209.85.212.178]:33017 "EHLO mail-wi0-f178.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754097AbbGFQx2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Jul 2015 12:53:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20150625182534.74ee14dc@gandalf.local.home> References: <1434831679-3852-1-git-send-email-tal.shorer@gmail.com> <20150625182534.74ee14dc@gandalf.local.home> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 19:53:26 +0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [Patch RFC 0/2] tracing: allow disabling compilation of specific trace systems From: Tal Shorer To: Steven Rostedt Cc: mingo@redhat.com, "" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2125 Lines: 55 On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 1:25 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 25 Jun 2015 23:41:17 +0300 > Tal Shorer 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 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 >> > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/