Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751333AbWIOMQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:16:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751336AbWIOMQX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:16:23 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:63696 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751333AbWIOMQW (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 08:16:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 From: Alan Cox To: Roman Zippel Cc: Tim Bird , Ingo Molnar , Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Tom Zanussi , ltt-dev@shafik.org, Michel Dagenais In-Reply-To: References: <20060914033826.GA2194@Krystal> <20060914112718.GA7065@elte.hu> <20060914135548.GA24393@elte.hu> <20060914171320.GB1105@elte.hu> <20060914181557.GA22469@elte.hu> <4509B03A.3070504@am.sony.com> <1158320406.29932.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:38:58 +0100 Message-Id: <1158323938.29932.23.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.2 (2.6.2-1.fc5.5) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 873 Lines: 22 Ar Gwe, 2006-09-15 am 13:46 +0200, ysgrifennodd Roman Zippel: > > That misses the entire point. If you have dynamic tracepoints you don't > > have any static tracepoints to maintain because you don't need them. > > This assumes dynamic tracepoints are generally available, which is wrong. Wrong in what sense, you don't have them implemented or your architecture is mindbogglingly braindead you can't implement them ? > This assumes that dynamic tracepoints can't benefit from static source > annotations, which is also wrong. gcc -g produces extensive annotations which are then usably by many tools other than gdb. Alan - 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/