Re: [PATCH 0/2] A kernel tracing interface

Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-09-18T17:55:38Z

* Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:53:03 -0700 Vara Prasad <prasadav@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> > This is part of the effort by the SystemTap team to move pieces of the
> > project that are generic to mainline.
>
> Yeah. It seems to have been reviewed to death. Is it ready to
> be applied yet?

I would just say that this could be seen rather as a driver tracing
interface than a general purpose tracing interface. Therefore, maybe the
name is a bit misleading ? And yes, what is there is good, but it does
not seem to be a replacement for a generic kernel tracer.

My suggestions to turn it into a more suitable interface for a generic
tracer are summarized in this email:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/15/136

Mathieu

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