On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:51:59AM +0100, Till Kamppeter wrote: > No problem for students to suggest topics. We are not restricted to > wireless in terms of kernel. We support kernel projects in general. > > Please give your suggestion as answer to this e-mail, doing "Reply to > all", as I am not a kernel export, the other participants of this thread > should have a look at the student's project ideas and help finding > mentors. > > Till Ok, I hope it's not too late. Here is one subject that I would like to apply for: = Improving tracing in perf events / ftrace = Using trace events under perf events is still a young feature and needs various improvements. - Syscall events can carry only raw values and addresses. We need to make them "aware" of strings and structures contents from userspace. - Make function / function graph tracers usable by perf - Optimize tracing fast-path - Improve perf tools to better handle trace events scalability - Provide new perf tools that exploit trace events (scheduler migration analysis, etc...) - Implement a per context excluding (eg: exclude irqs, exclude functions, etc...) - There are always things to do there. Of course, each of these elements require a lot of work, so not all of them can be done in two months, and some of them can be started already before the summer. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
