Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753990AbXJ2Vvu (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751038AbXJ2Vvm (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:42 -0400 Received: from tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.110]:41745 "EHLO tomts43-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752566AbXJ2Vvl (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:41 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: Aq4HAGzyJUdMQWvU/2dsb2JhbACBWo5W Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:38 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Randy Dunlap , Sam Ravnborg , Jens Axboe , Prasanna S Panchamukhi , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Anil S Keshavamurthy , "David S. Miller" , Ingo Molnar , Peter Zijlstra , Philippe Elie , Linus Torvalds , "William L. Irwin" , Arjan van de Ven , Christoph Lameter Subject: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository) Message-ID: <20071029215138.GA4233@Krystal> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 15:08:42 up 91 days, 19:27, 4 users, load average: 5.31, 2.23, 1.19 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: 1311 Lines: 48 Hi, Since we already have the Instrumentation menu in kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation and instrumentation code all over the kernel tree: arch/*/oprofile/*.c kernel/kprobes.c arch/*/kernel/kprobes.c kernel/marker.c kernel/profile.c kernel/lockdep.c vm/vmstat.c block/blktrace.c drivers/base/power/trace.c We could move them to instrumentation/ arch/*/instrumentation/ Therefore, we could also move the kprobes and marker samples under instrumentation/samples/ Here is a link to a git repository containing the changes, based on 2.6.24-rc1: git://ltt.polymtl.ca/linux-2.6-instrumentation.git instrumentation-for-linus (the interesting range is : v2.6.24-rc1..instrumentation-for-linus) Through the gitweb interface: http://ltt.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-instrumentation.git Feedback is appreciated. Sorry for the huge CC list, but the change involves many maintainers. 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/