Re: DTrace-like analysis possible with future Linux kernels?

John Levon
2004-08-22T23:03:52Z

On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 08:27:38PM +0200, Tomasz K?oczko wrote:

> As same as KProbe/DTrace. Can you use OProfile for something other tnan
> profiling ? Probably yes and this answer opens: probably it will be good
> prepare some common code for KProbe and Oprofile.

I don't see an overlap here, except maybe the possibility of delivering
sample events into the kprobes framework

> It is not only extenging entropy kernel tree. IMO KProbe can bring some
> functionalities wich can be common also for OProfile and probably in
> future IMO OProfile can be droped.

This seems extremely unlikely to say the least, compare the methods
used.

regards
john