Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Trace events to pstore

[Joel Fernandes]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 3:48 PM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 10 Sep 2020 21:25:11 -0400
> Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Hi Rob,
> > (Back from holidays, digging through the email pile). Reply below:
>
> What ever happen to this?
>
> Sorry, I was expecting more replies, and when there was nothing, it got
> lost in my inbox.
>
[...]
> > > From a DT standpoint, we already have a reserved persistent RAM
> > > binding too. There's already too much kernel specifics on how it is
> > > used, we don't need more of that in DT. We're not going to add another
> > > separate region (actually, you can have as many regions defined as you
> > > want. They will just all be 'ramoops' compatible).
> >
> > I agree with the sentiment here on DT. Maybe the DT can be generalized
> > to provide a ram region to which either ramoops or ramtrace can
> > attach.
>
> Right,
>
> Perhaps just remove patch 7, but still have the ramoops work move forward?

This was an internship project submission which stalled after the
internship ended, I imagine Nachammai has moved on to doing other
things since.

I am curious how this came on your radar after 2 years, did someone
tell you to prioritize improving performance of ftrace on pstore? I
could probably make time to work on it more if someone has a usecase
for this or something.

Thanks,

 - Joel