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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v5 4/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer
Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:28:12 -0400
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Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,         Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,         lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,         systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,         Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,         Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,         Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>
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Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

> [...]  But as with so many tracing bits in the kernel it's just
> lowlevel bits without a good user interface.  We'd really need some
> high-level way for sysadmins/developers to use it.  E.g. a version
> of the systemtap compiler that doesn't build a kernel module but
> instead uses the event tracer + the kprobes tracer. [...]

This (the translator detecting that a particular script is simple
enough to be executed in this manner) is theoretically possible.

- FChE