Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753181Ab0KRArr (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:47:47 -0500 Received: from e23smtp06.au.ibm.com ([202.81.31.148]:42519 "EHLO e23smtp06.au.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751210Ab0KRArp (ORCPT ); Wed, 17 Nov 2010 19:47:45 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: LKML , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt , Arjan van de Ven , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Frederic Weisbecker , Masami Hiramatsu , Tom Zanussi , Mathieu Desnoyers , Li Zefan , Jason Baron , "David S. Miller" , Christoph Hellwig , Pekka Enberg , Lai Jiangshan , Eric Dumazet Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] New utility: 'trace' From: Ian Munsie To: Thomas Gleixner In-reply-to: References: Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:47:39 +1100 Message-Id: <1290041086-sup-5766@au1.ibm.com> User-Agent: Sup/0.11 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 895 Lines: 22 Excerpts from Thomas Gleixner's message of Wed Nov 17 08:04:40 +1100 2010: > We are pleased to announce a new tracing tool called 'trace'. Cool! > Build the -tip kernel and reboot into it to get the most out of the > tool - but even on default kernels it will try to cope. Syscall events > (CONFIG_FTRACE_SYSCALLS=y) is a must for most methods of analysis > though. (with the above -tip tree you'll get it all configured by > default) OK, now I'll really have to find some time in the near future to go back to the work I was doing on the ftrace syscalls + building on Jason's ftrace compat syscall patches to make the most of this. Cheers, -Ian -- 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/