From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7FC38D003A for ; Mon, 14 Mar 2011 19:47:57 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:47:54 +0100 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 0/20] 0: Inode based uprobes Message-ID: <20110314234754.GP2499@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20110314133403.27435.7901.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110314163028.a05cec49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20110314163028.a05cec49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Linux-mm , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linus Torvalds , Masami Hiramatsu , Christoph Hellwig , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Andi Kleen , Oleg Nesterov , Jim Keniston , Roland McGrath , SystemTap , LKML , "Paul E. McKenney" > IOW, I'm trying to get an understanding of how you expect this feature > will actually become useful to end users - the kernel patch is only > part of the story. One user would be systemtap for user tracing as I understand. Systemtap has a userbase (at least I use it, although not for user tracing) Right now lots of distros apply ugly patchkits to handle this instead, which is not good (tm). -Andi -- ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: email@kvack.org