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From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>,
	akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>,
	suparna@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes
Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 22:40:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060509204052.GN3570@stusta.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0mk68vyu2y.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 01:41:09PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> hch wrote:
> 
> > [...]  why the hell do you guys expect to get a huge piele of flaky
> > code integrate that slows down pagecaches and adds thousands of
> > lines of undebuggable and untestable code without submitting
> > something that actually calls it. [...]
> 
> It is reasonable to want to see code that exercises this function.
> Until systemtap does, hand-written examples can surely be provided.

It's not about examples, it's about in-kernel users.

If the code using it is not yet ready for submission, there's no need to 
add interfaces for it now.

> - FChE

cu
Adrian

-- 

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-09 20:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-09  6:54 [RFC] [PATCH 0/6] Kprobes: User-space probes support for i386 Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-09  6:59 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/6] Kprobes: Allow/deny exclusive write access to inodes Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-09  7:01   ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/6] Kprobes: Get one pagetable entry Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-09  7:05     ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-09  7:09       ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/6] Kprobes: Insert probes on non-memory resident pages Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-09  7:12         ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/6] Kprobes: Single step the original instruction out-of-line Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-09  7:15           ` [RFC] [PATCH 6/6] Kprobes: Remove breakpoints from the copied pages Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-09 17:04             ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-10 12:17               ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-05-10 15:17                 ` Hugh Dickins
2006-05-09  9:38           ` [RFC] [PATCH 5/6] Kprobes: Single step the original instruction out-of-line Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-10  0:47           ` bibo,mao
2006-05-10 14:19             ` Richard J Moore
2006-05-09  9:37         ` [RFC] [PATCH 4/6] Kprobes: Insert probes on non-memory resident pages Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-09  9:36       ` [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-09 15:11         ` Richard J Moore
2006-05-09 15:18           ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-09 17:41             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-05-09 20:40               ` Adrian Bunk [this message]
2006-05-09 20:58                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-05-09 22:35                   ` Christoph Hellwig
2006-05-09  9:34     ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/6] Kprobes: Get one pagetable entry Christoph Hellwig
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-05-09 15:34 [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes Khushil Dep

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