2008/10/9 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>:
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>> Why don't you use the ring-buffer tracing engine?
>
> Because he doesn't actually need a ring buffer, it's a snapshot in
> time.

You have the possibility to implement a read callback to not use the
ring buffer.

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> ftrace-of-bork wants to assimilate everything?

I just proposed that to unify the tracers.
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