Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] kmemtrace RFC patch series

Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu
2008-07-11T20:12:52Z

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:38:41 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> Hi Eduard,
>
> Did you have a look at the new tracepoints infrastructure ? I think it
> could simplify your patchset a _lot_ !

Hi,

Yes, I did. In fact, I asked you to keep me Cc-ed, which you did.

> Basically, it removes the format string from markers and allows to
> pass complex structure pointers as arguments. It aims at simplifying
> the life of in-kernel tracers which would want to use the facility.
> Turning a marker implementation to tracepoints is really
> straightforward, for an example see :
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/9/569
>
> For the tracepoints patchset :
>
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/9/199
>
> I think much of include/linux/kmemtrace.h, which is really just
> wrappers around marker code, could then go away.

Basically, I want just as much to get rid of markers. I'm just waiting
for tracepoints to get closer to mainline.

Cheers,
Eduard

> Regards,
>
> Mathieu