Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932345AbWIOXaM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:30:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932355AbWIOXaM (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:30:12 -0400 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:55821 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932345AbWIOXaL (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:30:11 -0400 Message-ID: <450B39DF.5000909@opersys.com> Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:40:15 -0400 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.8.0.6) Gecko/20060804 Fedora/1.0.4-0.5.1.fc5 SeaMonkey/1.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" CC: Ingo Molnar , "Jose R. Santos" , Mathieu Desnoyers , Roman Zippel , Andrew Morton , tglx@linutronix.de, Paul Mundt , Jes Sorensen , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Tom Zanussi , ltt-dev@shafik.org, Michel Dagenais Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108 References: <450AB957.2050206@opersys.com> <20060915142836.GA9288@localhost.usen.ad.jp> <450ABE08.2060107@opersys.com> <1158332447.5724.423.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20060915111644.c857b2cf.akpm@osdl.org> <20060915181907.GB17581@elte.hu> <20060915200559.GB30459@elte.hu> <20060915202233.GA23318@Krystal> <450B164B.7090404@us.ibm.com> <20060915220345.GC12789@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 18 Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Let us design a static marker mechanism that can be coupled at run > time either to a dynamic system such as systemtap, or by a specialized > tracing system such as lttnng (!). Then "markers" === "static > instrumentation", for purposes of the kernel developer. If the > markers are lightweight enough, then a distribution kernel can afford > keeping them compiled in. I'm all for it. Karim - 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/