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Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer

From Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer
Date 2016-11-29 10:20 +0100
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* Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> wrote:

> On 29 November 2016 at 15:23, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > * John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> >> From: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org>
> >>
> >> For system debugging, we sometimes want to know who sets one
> >> alarm timer, the time of the timer, when the timer started and
> >> fired and so on. Thus adding tracepoints can help us trace the
> >> alarmtimer information.
> >
> > s/one alarm timer/an alarm timer
> >
> >> For example, when we debug the system supend/resume, if the
> >> system is always resumed by RTC alarm, we can find out which
> >> process set the alarm timer to resume system by below trace log:
> >
> > s/when we debug the system/when we debug system
> > s/supend/suspend
> > s/resume system/resume the system
> > s/by below trace log/by the trace log below
> >
> >> From the trace log, we can find out the 'Binder:3292_2' process
> >> set one alarm timer which resumes the system.
> >
> > s/set one alarm timer/set an alarm timer
> >
> >> Changes since v4:
> >>  - Initialize 'type' to -1 and rename it in alarmtimer_suspend().
> >>  - Fix typo in subject line.
> >>
> >> Changes since v3:
> >>  - Remove the "ALARM_" prefix in the string.
> >>  - Add the ACK by Steven Rostedt.
> >>
> >> Changes since v2:
> >>  - Save time as s64 type.
> >>  - Remove 'process_name' parameter and add 'now' parameter.
> >>  - Rename the trace event name.
> >>  - Remove restart trace event.
> >>  - Other optimization.
> >
> > I find it really sad that a patch that has gone through 4 iterations still has so
> > many typos and grammar errors in its changelog :-(
> 
> Really sorry for these elementary errors, I will fix these errors in
> new patch. Sorry for troubles again.

No problem - the code looks fine to me, so we can fix this when applying the 
patches.

Thanks,

	Ingo

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[PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> - 2016-11-28 23:40 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-29 08:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-11-29 09:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2016-11-29 10:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-11-29 13:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for  alarmtimer Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> - 2016-11-29 13:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-11-30 12:50 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4/7] time: alarmtimer: Add the tracepoints for alarmtimer Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linaro.org> - 2016-12-01 03:40 +0100
  [tip:timers/core] alarmtimer: Add tracepoints for alarm timers tip-bot for Baolin Wang <tipbot@zytor.com> - 2016-12-01 15:00 +0100

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