Re: [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20

[Vara Prasad <prasadav@us.ibm.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:

>On 15 Feb 2007 10:28:57 -0500
>fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote:
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>>akpm wrote:
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>>>[...]  And what can I do with these markers?  And once I've done it,
>>>are there any userspace applications I can use to get the data out
>>>in human-usable form?  [...]
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>>The LTTng user-space programs use it today.  Systemtap used to support
>>the earlier marker prototype and will be rapidly ported over to this
>>new API upon acceptance.
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>That's good.
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>It would be beneficial if some people from those projects could spare the
>cycles to carefully review and runtime test this code.
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Sure, as soon as SystemTap translator supports this new marker mechanism 
we will give it a spin and report results.

>Also, I'm not 100% clear on where we ended up with the huge
>static-vs-dynamic flamewar.  Did everyone end up happy?  Is this patchset a
>reasonable compromise?  Or do we need a rematch?
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 From my view this is a good compromise. We all realized in that long 
discussion thread that we need a way to mark the code in the middle of 
functions that can later be activated dynamically. Mathieu's current 
implementation meets that goal. I will be happy to see this in.

Thanks,
Vara Prasad