Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758108AbaDBHhD (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2014 03:37:03 -0400 Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com ([209.85.212.171]:38733 "EHLO mail-wi0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757364AbaDBHhA (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Apr 2014 03:37:00 -0400 Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 09:36:55 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: Jovi Zhangwei Cc: Alexei Starovoitov , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , LKML , Masami Hiramatsu , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Frederic Weisbecker , Daniel Borkmann , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Peter Zijlstra , Thomas Gleixner , Jiri Olsa , Geoff.Levand@huawei.com Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/28] ktap: A lightweight dynamic tracing tool for Linux Message-ID: <20140402073655.GA22680@gmail.com> References: <1396014469-5937-1-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com> <20140331071749.GA1252@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jovi Zhangwei wrote: > > I think nothing stops ktap userspace to parse ktap language and > > generate 'internal bpf' format. gcc is unnecessary here. > > It's a big engineering problem, [...] Sorry, but it will become an even bigger engineering problem if it's merged to the upstream kernel tree! You need to solve known design and implementational issues before we can even think about any upstream merge. Thanks, Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/