Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759908AbZJMN2D (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:28:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759505AbZJMN2B (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:28:01 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:40340 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758138AbZJMN2A (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:28:00 -0400 Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 15:26:56 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Steven Rostedt Cc: mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, zhaolei@cn.fujitsu.com, xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, tglx@linutronix.de, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:timers/tracing] hrtimer: Add tracepoint for hrtimers Message-ID: <20091013132656.GA12292@elte.hu> References: <4A7F8B2B.5020908@cn.fujitsu.com> <1255404309.7113.948.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20091013070853.GA13175@elte.hu> <1255439822.7113.1541.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1255439822.7113.1541.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 957 Lines: 27 * Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-10-13 at 09:08 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > > > > (unsigned long long)(((ktime_t) { .tv64 = REC->expires }).tv64) > > > > > > Is not easy. It's basically implementing a C interpreter :-( > > > > Btw., what i suggested quite some time ago was that we should bind > > tracepoints by emitting C source code stubs, which tools can then build > > and link in, using gcc. > > Yeah, and I thought about that too. But that kills any chance of > running the trace on one box (non x86) and reading it on another > (x86). And that is one of my goals for this. Why does it kill that chance? Ingo -- 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/