Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754597Ab1BVPnv (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:43:51 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:60423 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754321Ab1BVPnt convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Feb 2011 10:43:49 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf lock: clean the options for perf record From: Peter Zijlstra To: Hitoshi Mitake Cc: Frederic Weisbecker , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, h.mitake@gmail.com, Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Steven Rostedt In-Reply-To: <4D63D685.2010401@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> References: <1298388507-19774-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> <4D63D685.2010401@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 16:43:35 +0100 Message-ID: <1298389415.2217.243.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 561 Lines: 13 On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 00:30 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote: > How do you think about it? Most of the lock code (esp the spinlock stuff) is already way over the threshold of sanity, adding to that for some dubious reasons doesn't seem like a good idea. I'm still not at all sure why people want all this lock tracing. -- 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/