Re: [PATCH] tracing: add tracing C helper functions

2015-12-23 Thread Steven Rostedt
Sorry for the late reply. This got lost in my INBOX, and I'm just now noticing it. If you send me a patch and don't hear a response, feel free to send me a "ping" to ask about the progress. I never just "ignore" a patch. If you don't hear from me, it's usually because I put it in my "todo" and it

[PATCH] tracing: add tracing C helper functions

2015-11-27 Thread Ioan-Adrian Ratiu
Tracing/debugging programatically from kernel C code is quite limited compared to its tracefs alternative mainly due to lack of interfaces. linux/kernel.h provides traceing_on/off() and *_snapshot(), but these only allow access to a limited subset of the tracing functionality. This patch adds 5 ne