[PATCH 3/3] ftrace: add ability to only trace swapper tasks

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Thu Dec 4 07:47:27 PST 2008


On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > >
> > >> > +static struct pid * const ftrace_swapper_pid = (struct pid *)1;
> > >> 
> > >> eh?
> > >
> > > all side-effects of getting rid of the integer based PID namespace 
> > > and replacing them with struct pid pointers.
> > 
> > Thanks for asking Andrew it looks like an unnecessary side effect.
> 
> Will wait for how the end result looks like ;-)

I'm waiting on a fix for fork.c. I already wrote the code in ftrace when 
the fork code is fixed. It does clean it up nicely. But I do not know all 
the intricacies of the struct pid code to do the fork code correctly.

-- Steve



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