Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755962AbZLCKkD (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:40:03 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755947AbZLCKkD (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:40:03 -0500 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:48616 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755941AbZLCKkB (ORCPT ); Thu, 3 Dec 2009 05:40:01 -0500 Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:39:35 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Andrew Morton , lkml , systemtap , DLE , Oleg Nesterov , Roland McGrath , Jason Baron , KOSAKI Motohiro Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] [RFC] tracepoint: Add signal coredump tracepoint Message-ID: <20091203103935.GA7628@elte.hu> References: <4B128ECF.9020906@redhat.com> <20091202204637.25408.41195.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091202204637.25408.41195.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-08-17) X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=none autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.5 _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 548 Lines: 15 * Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Add signal coredump tracepoint which shows signal number, mm->flags, > limits, pointer to file structure and core file name. Why is the kernel pointer to the file structure logged? User-space has no use for it and the analysis value is low. Ingo -- 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/