Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757336AbZKNAHE (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:07:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756918AbZKNAHD (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:07:03 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:56859 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756781AbZKNAHC (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:07:02 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Roland McGrath To: Ingo Molnar X-Fcc: ~/Mail/linus Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , lkml , systemtap , DLE Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint In-Reply-To: Ingo Molnar's message of Saturday, 14 November 2009 01:02:34 +0100 <20091114000234.GA24738@elte.hu> References: <20091113225226.15079.90813.stgit@harusame> <20091113225233.15079.41600.stgit@harusame> <20091113233912.192A3100E@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20091114000234.GA24738@elte.hu> X-Windows: dissatisfaction guaranteed. Message-Id: <20091114000627.48ED615E8@magilla.sf.frob.com> Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:06:27 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 20 > Oh, so SystemTap is the motivator of these tracepoints? Nope. My suggestion about arguments to pass was just generic based on the innate context of this tracepoint. > Do you know about exact usecases where these tracepoints would be > utilized? Would be interesting (and relevant) to list them. Masami's colleagues do have something in particular in mind, but I'm not sure whether they intend to use systemtap as part of the implementation of that or not. Thanks, Roland -- 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/