From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] markers-linker-generic
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:02:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070411110240.537ee25d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070411175110.GA30879@Krystal>
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:51:11 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> > What's this marker stuff about?
> >
>
> Hi Russel,
>
> Here is an overview :
I am told that the systemtap developers plan to (or are) using this
infrastructure.
If correct: what is their reason for preferring it over kprobes?
Secondly, the code in -mm has no actual backend for delivering anything to
userspace or to anywhere else. Why is this? Which backends currently
exist, and which ones are envisaged? Is there a plan to merge any backend
into the mainline kernel?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-11 18:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-10 22:36 [PATCH] markers-linker-generic Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:48 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-m68knommu Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:49 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-mips Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:50 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-parisc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:51 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-powerpc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:52 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-ppc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:53 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-s390 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:54 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sh Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:54 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sh64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:55 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sparc Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:56 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-sparc64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:57 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-um Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:58 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-v850 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:58 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-x86_64 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-10 22:59 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-xtensa Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 7:44 ` [PATCH] markers-linker-generic Russell King
2007-04-11 17:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 18:02 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-04-11 19:21 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 21:45 ` Jim Keniston
2007-04-12 0:21 ` Vara Prasad
2007-04-11 20:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-04-11 22:58 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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