Re: [PATCH 1/3] Documention for trace records (trec).

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Mar 27 2007 - 10:20:37 EST


Wink Saville <wink@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Trec is a light weight tracing mechanism that places
> trace information into a buffer. The contents of the
> buffer is dumped when errors occurs or when enabled
> via SYSRQ commands.

relayfs was supposed to fill this purpose. Why do you want
another one?

It doesn't work for sysrq dumping on fatal errors, but in my
experience on such cases custom tracing is best.

-Andi
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