On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 08:29:54AM -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:56:11PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > +	TP_printk("task=%lx, address=%lx, regs=%lx",
> > +		(unsigned long)__entry->task, (unsigned long)__entry->address,
> > +			__entry->regs)
> 
> How exactly do you use the information in this trace point?  Especially
> the undecoded pt_regs doesn't seem very useful to me at all.

agreed, the registers pointer are not very useful in the trace file output,
and could be taken away.. just wanted to be complete I guess

but I believe they are useful when you register the mm_kernel_pagefault
tracepoint and process the information by yourself

wbr,
jirka
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