Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761149AbXIRRzi (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759911AbXIRRzb (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:31 -0400 Received: from tomts5.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.25]:43087 "EHLO tomts5-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754711AbXIRRza (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:30 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:55:22 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Andrew Morton Cc: Vara Prasad , David Wilder , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, SystemTAP Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] A kernel tracing interface Message-ID: <20070918175521.GA2915@Krystal> References: <46E9CB0D.2040206@us.ibm.com> <20070914174953.04b0b158.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <46EFFF9D.6090609@us.ibm.com> <46F0026F.7030102@us.ibm.com> <20070918101327.91c5f24f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070918101327.91c5f24f.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 13:52:09 up 50 days, 18:11, 4 users, load average: 1.04, 0.59, 0.75 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1172 Lines: 29 * Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:53:03 -0700 Vara Prasad wrote: > > > This is part of the effort by the SystemTap team to move pieces of the > > project that are generic to mainline. > > Yeah. It seems to have been reviewed to death. Is it ready to > be applied yet? I would just say that this could be seen rather as a driver tracing interface than a general purpose tracing interface. Therefore, maybe the name is a bit misleading ? And yes, what is there is good, but it does not seem to be a replacement for a generic kernel tracer. My suggestions to turn it into a more suitable interface for a generic tracer are summarized in this email: http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/15/136 Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 - 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/