Apologies for the delayed reply. I've added a new documentation patch describing what we expect w.r.t. the version event and its "evt" field. I've also reworked the final patch to allow writing a full trace session to the sentinel file, and to make sure that the overload event comes after the version event. I am still incrementing the EVT and writing a new "overload" event, since you said in the last review that this approache seems best to you. But I am also happy to keep the EVT=1 and make "overload" a new field in the "version" event if you've changed your mind. Josh Steadmon (4): docs: mention trace2 target-dir mode in git-config docs: clarify trace2 version invariants trace2: don't overload target directories trace2: write overload message to sentinel files Documentation/config/trace2.txt | 6 ++ Documentation/technical/api-trace2.txt | 30 +++++-- Documentation/trace2-target-values.txt | 4 +- t/t0212-trace2-event.sh | 19 +++++ trace2/tr2_dst.c | 113 ++++++++++++++++++++++--- trace2/tr2_dst.h | 1 + trace2/tr2_sysenv.c | 3 + trace2/tr2_sysenv.h | 2 + trace2/tr2_tgt_event.c | 31 +++++-- trace2/tr2_tgt_normal.c | 2 +- trace2/tr2_tgt_perf.c | 2 +- 11 files changed, 185 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-) Range-diff against v3: -: ---------- > 1: a757bca8f9 docs: clarify trace2 version invariants 1: bf20ec8ea2 ! 2: 98a8440d3f trace2: don't overload target directories @@ Commit message The config can also be overridden with a new environment variable: GIT_TRACE2_MAX_FILES. - Potential future work: - * Write a message into the sentinel file (should match the requested - trace2 output format). - * Add a performance test to make sure that contention between multiple - processes all writing to the same target directory does not become an - issue. - ## Documentation/config/trace2.txt ## @@ trace2/tr2_dst.c: void tr2_dst_trace_disable(struct tr2_dst *dst) + struct strbuf path = STRBUF_INIT, sentinel_path = STRBUF_INIT; + struct stat statbuf; + -+ strbuf_addstr(&path, tgt_prefix); -+ if (!is_dir_sep(path.buf[path.len - 1])) { -+ strbuf_addch(&path, '/'); -+ } -+ + /* Get the config or envvar and decide if we should continue this check */ + max_files_var = tr2_sysenv_get(TR2_SYSENV_MAX_FILES); + if (max_files_var && *max_files_var && ((max_files = atoi(max_files_var)) >= 0)) @@ trace2/tr2_dst.c: void tr2_dst_trace_disable(struct tr2_dst *dst) + goto cleanup; + } + ++ strbuf_addstr(&path, tgt_prefix); ++ if (!is_dir_sep(path.buf[path.len - 1])) { ++ strbuf_addch(&path, '/'); ++ } ++ + /* check sentinel */ + strbuf_addbuf(&sentinel_path, &path); + strbuf_addstr(&sentinel_path, OVERLOAD_SENTINEL_NAME); 2: bab45cb735 < -: ---------- trace2: write overload message to sentinel files -: ---------- > 3: 790c5ac95a trace2: write overload message to sentinel files -- 2.23.0.581.g78d2f28ef7-goog