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Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 12:18:38 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Remove kmemtrace ftrace plugin
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On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 06:16:17AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 05:22:17PM +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> > We have been resisting new ftrace plugins and removing existing
> > ones, and kmemtrace has been superseded by kmem trace events
> > and perf-kmem, so we remove it.
> 
> While you're at it also care to remove the blk ftrace plugin?  We have
> the old blktrace ioctl interface and the trace events as better
> alternatives.


But does the userspace tool support them?