Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760790AbYFXQXg (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:23:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751699AbYFXQX1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:23:27 -0400 Received: from fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.37]:56217 "EHLO fgwmail7.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751688AbYFXQX0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:23:26 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 01:21:48 +0900 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Masami Hiramatsu Subject: Re: [RFC] Tracepoint proposal Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Takashi Nishiie , "'Alexey Dobriyan'" , "'Mathieu Desnoyers'" , "'Peter Zijlstra'" , "'Steven Rostedt'" , "'Frank Ch. Eigler'" , "'Ingo Molnar'" , "'LKML'" , "'systemtap-ml'" , "'Hideo AOKI'" In-Reply-To: <48611B03.1000003@redhat.com> References: <007601c8d5ca$18fa0e10$4aee2a30$@css.fujitsu.com> <48611B03.1000003@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20080625011951.D83E.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.42 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 542 Lines: 18 > Tracepoint > - stored in a section > - dynamic activation > - no message > - export kernel structure > - arguments depending on points > - high frequently called > - no module support (kernel use only) Why Shouldn't kernel module use tracepoint? technical problem? or any plicy exist? -- 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/