Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752712AbXLDU22 (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:28:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751270AbXLDU2V (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:28:21 -0500 Received: from e2.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.142]:55573 "EHLO e2.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750964AbXLDU2U (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 15:28:20 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] LTTng instrumentation mm (updated) From: Dave Hansen To: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: "Frank Ch. Eigler" , akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, mbligh@google.com In-Reply-To: <20071204200558.GB1988@Krystal> References: <20071129023421.GA711@Krystal> <1196317552.18851.47.camel@localhost> <20071130161155.GA29634@Krystal> <1196444801.18851.127.camel@localhost> <20071130170516.GA31586@Krystal> <1196448122.19681.16.camel@localhost> <20071130191006.GB3955@Krystal> <20071204192537.GC31752@Krystal> <1196797259.6073.17.camel@localhost> <20071204200558.GB1988@Krystal> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:28:16 -0800 Message-Id: <1196800096.6073.25.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 624 Lines: 17 Or, think out of the box... Maybe you can introduce some interfaces that expose information both in sysfs (in normal human-readable formats) and in a way that lets you get the same data out in some binary format. Seems to me you'll have a lot easier time justifying all of these lines of code spread all over the kernel if there are a few more users off the bat. -- Dave -- 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/