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On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:36:10AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> It hides the cosmetically-ugly bits, but not the deeply ugly: each of these
> trace points is an extension to the kernel->userspace API, with all that
> this implies.

Not at all.  It's only accessibe to kernel code, so it per defintion
can't be a userspace API.