Re: [PATCH 3/4] tracing/profile: Add filter support

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Oct 13 2009 - 06:09:10 EST



* Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> +#ifdef CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE
> +struct perf_event;
> +extern int ftrace_profile_enable(int event_id);
> +extern void ftrace_profile_disable(int event_id);
> +extern int ftrace_profile_set_filter(struct perf_event *event, int event_id,
> + char *filter_str);
> +extern void ftrace_profile_free_filter(struct perf_event *event);
> +#endif

This reminds me - i think we should eliminate CONFIG_EVENT_PROFILE -
it's an unnecessary Kconfig complication. If both PERF_EVENTS and
EVENT_TRACING is enabled we should expose generic tracepoints.

Nor is it limited to event 'profiling', so it has become a misnomer as
well.

Ingo
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