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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v8 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86
	instruction decoder
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 04:05:03 -0400
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Small question to start with: What's your (or Hitachi s/Red Hat's) use case
for this?  It's obviously really cool technology, but I fear without
some good user space side to make it easy to use it will most likely
bit-rot which would be sad.