Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751155AbWIUM2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:28:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751157AbWIUM2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:28:18 -0400 Received: from scrub.xs4all.nl ([194.109.195.176]:65505 "EHLO scrub.xs4all.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbWIUM2S (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:28:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:26:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Roman Zippel X-X-Sender: roman@scrub.home To: Ingo Molnar cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , Martin Bligh , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Masami Hiramatsu , prasanna@in.ibm.com, Andrew Morton , Paul Mundt , linux-kernel , Jes Sorensen , Tom Zanussi , Richard J Moore , Michel Dagenais , Christoph Hellwig , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , William Cohen , ltt-dev@shafik.org, systemtap@sources.redhat.com, Alan Cox Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Markers 0.4 (+dynamic probe loader) for 2.6.17 In-Reply-To: <20060921044603.GA2089@elte.hu> Message-ID: References: <20060920234517.GA29171@Krystal> <20060921044603.GA2089@elte.hu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1188 Lines: 27 Hi, On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > It affects all tracers: SystemTap/LKST has to adapt to such a scheme > too, because currently there's no markup scheme in the kernel. So this > is not something 'against' LTT, but something /for/ a unified landscape > of tracers. (and as i mentioned it before, it will be easy for you to > offer a simple "LTT speedup patch", which distros and the upstream > kernel can consider separately. But it must be /optional/.) Out of curiosity: How exactly would it hurt this unifiation, if you left some of the implementation details simply to the archs? > So far i have not seen any real arguments against this simple but > fundamental upstream requirement which i pointed out for v0.1 already. It's funny, after reality sets in, I'll get exactly what I asked for in the first place, now I only have to figure out a way to do this without getting insulted by almost everyone... bye, Roman - 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/