Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754357Ab1B1SHF (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:07:05 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:48931 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754289Ab1B1SHD (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Feb 2011 13:07:03 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] lockstat: export data in python expression From: Peter Zijlstra To: Hitoshi Mitake Cc: fweisbec@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, h.mitake@gmail.com, Paul Mackerras , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Steven Rostedt In-Reply-To: <1298905223-1807-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> References: <4D67E286.8010907@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> <1298905223-1807-1-git-send-email-mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 19:07:55 +0100 Message-ID: <1298916475.5226.850.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.30.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 668 Lines: 13 On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 00:00 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote: > I'm writing the tool for parsing and arranging the data of /proc/lock_stat > in python. But I soon found that lock_stat is hard to parse, so I wrote > this patch to let lock_stat output its information in python expression. _IF_ we're going to do something like this, I'd much prefer a sane output format over something that's easily parseble by just one thing. -- 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/