Re: Tracing configuration review

From: Frederic Weisbecker
Date: Tue May 25 2010 - 16:17:50 EST


On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:31 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> > # CONFIG_SCHED_TRACER is not set (headed for deprecation?)
>
> Although it is headed for deprecation, I think it still gets set by
> other tracers, since it has the code to initiate the comm reader.



Doesn't actually CONTEXT_SWITCH_TRACER has the code for the
comm things?


> > CONFIG_BOOT_TRACER=y (no performance impact by default)
>
> But this tracer is pretty useless. It gives no more information than
> debug_initcalls.



Yeah it's pretty useless. And these informations can also be displayed
through printk on boot so...

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