Re: [PATCH 1/3] tracing,x86: add a TSC trace_clock; reset buffer onclock change

[David Sharp]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-11 at 19:41 -0700, David Sharp wrote:
>> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> index 5c38c81..dc1f1fa 100644
>> --- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
>> @@ -480,6 +480,9 @@ static struct {
>>       { trace_clock_local,    "local" },
>>       { trace_clock_global,   "global" },
>>       { trace_clock_counter,  "counter" },
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_TSC
>> +     { trace_clock_tsc,      "tsc" },
>> +#endif
>>  };
>
> I really hate adding arch defs in generic code. Perhaps what we could do
> is add a define here. Something like:
>
> #ifndef ARCH_TRACE_CLOCKS
> # define ARCH_TRACE_CLOCKS
> #endif
>
> [...]
>         { trace_clock_counter, "counter" },
>         ARCH_TRACE_CLOCKS
> };
>
> and have ARCH_TRACE_CLOCKS defined somewhere in an arch specific header.
> Not sure what header we could use though :-/
>
> That is, in a header have:
>
> #define ARCH_TRACE_CLOCKS \
>         { trace_clock_x86_tsc,  "tsc" },
>
> and also define trace_clock_x86_tsc in arch/x86/kernel...

Good point. I'll figure out somewhere better to put it...
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