From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] systemtap: begin the process of using proper kernel APIs (part1: use kprobe symbol_name/offset instead of address)
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:11:02 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080722181101.GC9508@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080722140015.37628ea4@bree.surriel.com>
Hi -
On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 02:00:15PM -0400, Rik van Riel wrote:
> [...]
> > Yes, that is generally desirable - each case is usually a question of
> > cost/benefit. One significant requirement for us is to keep working
> > with older kernels.
>
> You will have to weigh that against the benefits of making
> systemtap generally useful for kernel developers [...]
Understood & agreed, Rik. If an issue arises where there is genuine
conflict between kernel-developer-usability and something else, we'll
try to solve it favouring the former if at all possible.
(The kprobes addressing argument cannot reasonably be placed into this
category.)
- FChE
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-22 18:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-15 18:33 [RFC] systemtap: begin the process of using proper kernel APIs (part1: use kprobe symbol_name/offset instead of address) James Bottomley
2008-07-16 22:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-07-16 23:03 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-17 0:05 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-07-17 1:49 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-17 14:18 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-17 16:58 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-17 21:36 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-07-17 22:03 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-21 14:20 ` James Bottomley
[not found] ` <1216313914.5515.25.camel__21144.9282979176$1216314027$gmane$org@localhost.localdomain>
2008-07-17 18:30 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-17 20:12 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-17 20:26 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-17 21:06 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-17 21:33 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-17 22:03 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-07-22 18:00 ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-22 18:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2008-07-22 18:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
[not found] ` <1216751477.7257.115.camel__19834.5970632092$1216751567$gmane$org@twins>
2008-07-22 18:48 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-23 15:04 ` systemtap & backward compatibility, was Re: [RFC] systemtap: begin the process of using proper kernel APIs Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-23 15:28 ` Arjan van de Ven
2008-07-23 15:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-23 20:25 ` Masami Hiramatsu
[not found] ` <20080723082856.334f9c17__2909.60763018138$1216827051$gmane$org@infradead.org>
2008-07-23 16:41 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-23 16:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-23 17:34 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-23 18:40 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-07-23 22:12 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-07-18 9:11 ` [RFC] systemtap: begin the process of using proper kernel APIs (part1: use kprobe symbol_name/offset instead of address) Andi Kleen
2008-07-18 9:23 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-18 10:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-18 10:44 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-18 10:52 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-18 13:02 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-18 13:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-18 13:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-18 13:28 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-18 13:35 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-18 13:21 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-18 13:37 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
[not found] <1216146802.3312.95.camel__45052.4692344063$1216146917$gmane$org@localhost.localdomain>
2008-07-15 19:41 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-15 19:52 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-15 20:07 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-15 20:24 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-15 22:18 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-16 2:06 ` James Bottomley
2008-07-16 10:56 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-16 14:56 ` James Bottomley
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