Re: [PATCH 05/27] usb: chipidea: replace interrupt accounting with tracepoints

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On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 02:46:21AM +0200, Alexander Shishkin wrote:
> The driver also has interrupt counters and another ring buffer for keeping
> track of the order in which they arrive. This patch converts these counters
> to trace points. Userspace tools such as perf can provide information on both
> order and stats of the interrupts.

Why would perf care about a single driver?  Why would a user?  Why are
these needed at all for anyone except the driver developer?

greg k-h
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