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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v8 7/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer
Date: Sat, 30 May 2009 04:15:26 -0400
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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:03:53PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Add kprobes-based event tracer on ftrace.

Wouldn't it make more sense to call this the dynamic event tracer?

The use of kprobes is more an implementation detail than something
the user cares about.