From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:36:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1101742562.25841.47.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041129151741.GA5514@infradead.org>
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 15:17 +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> Actually they were dumped because dynamically syscalls are a really bad
> idea, not because of implementation issues.
>
Yes, for most cases they are. But the implementation for them seemed to
be too intrusive for the special case. This solution is not so
intrusive, and can easily be compiled out. As I said, they are nice to
have for a quick debugging, and may have other uses as well. The times I
wished for them, was usually debugging a module and I didn't want to
recompile the kernel and reboot. So instead I made awful hacks into the
proc system or some make believe device to interface with.
I'm just putting this out for others to use. If it doesn't get into the
kernel, then so be it, but since this is not so intrusive, and can
easily be used on all architectures, then the patch can surely help
others.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-29 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-29 15:11 [PATCH][RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited Steven Rostedt
2004-11-29 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-29 15:36 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2004-11-30 19:30 ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-11-29 16:41 ` [RFC] " Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-29 17:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-05 23:46 ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-06 16:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 17:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 17:32 ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-06 17:57 ` linux-os
2004-12-06 18:03 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 18:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-07 0:20 ` Michael Buesch
2004-12-07 0:57 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 21:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-06 22:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 22:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-06 22:38 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-14 23:14 ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-15 2:14 ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-15 3:35 ` Steven Rostedt
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