On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 03:51:30PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 21:46:21 +0100 > Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 02:33:16PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > > [ H. Peter, Here's the rename patch. I did not include your update. You > > > can add that first and then massage this patch on top. But this isn't > > > critical for mainline or stable, where as I believe your patch is. ] > > > > > > The tracing utilities sometimes need to read from userspace (stack > > > tracing), > > > and to do this it has as special copy_from_user function called > > > copy_from_user_nmi(). Well, as tracers can call this from outside of > > > nmi context, the "_nmi" part is a misnomer and "_trace" is a better > > > name. > > > > NAK, spin_lock_irq() is very much an IRQ safe lock. Similarly > > copy_from_user_nmi() is an NMI safe copy from user. > > > > Furthermore, there's exactly 0 trace users, so the proposed name is > > actively worse. > > Heh, I consider perf and oprofile special tracers ;-)
They're first and foremost profilers; which is an entirely different thing. But other people seem to get confused on this distinction too. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
