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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 13:27:35 -0800
From: Darren Hart <dvhart@linux.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace'
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On 11/16/2010 01:04 PM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> We are pleased to announce a new tracing tool called 'trace'.
>

Hi Thomas, Ingo - Congrats and Thanks!

> At this point we'd like to ask for feedback from other users of tracing tools,
> which workflow components would you like to see in addition to what the 'trace'
> tool is offering?
>
> Comments, bug reports, suggestions welcome,

The first thing that comes to mind is trace_marker:

echo "Test point A" > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace_marker

I've found this sort of markup to be useful using ftrace (with C 
equivalents embedded in the test case). Is this supported?

Thanks,

-- 
Darren Hart
Yocto Linux Kernel
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