Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:57:32 +0900 (JST)
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][RFC] trace-cmd - command line reader for ftrace
Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
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> Again, this is very much in alpha form. It may still be very buggy, and 
> the format of the trace.dat file may soon change. Thus it is still in 
> [RFC] release status, and nothing is considered stable.
> 
> Here's some todo's I have planned.
> 
>  1) get it in a form to be used by perf (if possible)
>  2) add many more filters
>    a) More ways to filter on the report side
>    b) Add ways to filter on the recording side
>     This includes:
>       Using the /debug/tracing/event/*/filter files
>       Using the set_ftrace_filter/notrace files
>       Using the set_ftrace_pid
>       set_graph_function
>       enabling the backtrace functions
>       enabling the tracing/options
> 
> And I'm sure there are many more.
> 
> So, please feel free to download this code and play with it. If you find 
> bugs, please report. If you have other ideas that are not listed above, 
> share them.
> 
> Have fun!

Great! 
I'm very interesting this and I plan to start to evaluate this very 
good tool since next week.

Thanks for good effort.


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