From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267664AbUHVXDw (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:03:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267730AbUHVXDw (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:03:52 -0400 Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:63250 "EHLO probity.mcc.ac.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267664AbUHVXDj (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Aug 2004 19:03:39 -0400 Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 00:03:36 +0100 From: John Levon To: Tomasz K?oczko Cc: Alan Cox , Julien Oster , Miles Lane , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels? Message-ID: <20040822230336.GA2664@compsoc.man.ac.uk> References: <200408191822.48297.miles.lane@comcast.net> <87hdqyogp4.fsf@killer.ninja.frodoid.org> <1093174557.24319.55.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.25i X-Url: http://www.movementarian.org/ X-Record: King of Woolworths - L'Illustration Musicale X-Scanner: exiscan for exim4 (http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan/) *1Bz1NA-00056H-B8*GXv7FrtMb82* Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 08:27:38PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote: > As same as KProbe/DTrace. Can you use OProfile for something other tnan > profiling ? Probably yes and this answer opens: probably it will be good > prepare some common code for KProbe and Oprofile. I don't see an overlap here, except maybe the possibility of delivering sample events into the kprobes framework > It is not only extenging entropy kernel tree. IMO KProbe can bring some > functionalities wich can be common also for OProfile and probably in > future IMO OProfile can be droped. This seems extremely unlikely to say the least, compare the methods used. regards john