Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932074AbWIOPBf (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:01:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932079AbWIOPBe (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:01:34 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:46983 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932074AbWIOPBe (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 11:01:34 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 From: Alan Cox To: karim@opersys.com Cc: Paul Mundt , Jes Sorensen , Roman Zippel , 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: <450ABE08.2060107@opersys.com> References: <20060914181557.GA22469@elte.hu> <4509A54C.1050905@opersys.com> <450A9EC9.9080307@opersys.com> <20060915132052.GA7843@localhost.usen.ad.jp> <20060915135709.GB8723@localhost.usen.ad.jp> <450AB5F9.8040501@opersys.com> <450AB506.30802@sgi.com> <450AB957.2050206@opersys.com> <20060915142836.GA9288@localhost.usen.ad.jp> <450ABE08.2060107@opersys.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 16:24:23 +0100 Message-Id: <1158333863.29932.91.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: 1238 Lines: 28 Ar Gwe, 2006-09-15 am 10:51 -0400, ysgrifennodd Karim Yaghmour: > The static tracepoints we maintained were *the* solution for a great I think you mean "a" solution. You've not proved there are no others. > deal many people. As a maintainer I had two choices with those who > were not content: > a- Maintain their tracepoints for them -- not happening. > b- Suggest they contribute to helping getting a generic tracing > infrastructure into the kernel and then make their case on the > lkml as to the pertinence of their instrumentation. b has been done, its called kprobes. We just need better tools for the dynamic probes. > choice of tracepoints. Those who were using ltt for its designated > purpose -- allowing normal users and developers to get an accurate > view of the behavior of their system -- were very happy with it. and you can maintain "Karim's probe list" which is the dynamic probe set which matches your old static probes, only of course its now much more flexible. - 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/