Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

Ingo Molnar
2006-09-15T19:49:13Z

* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> wrote:

> I see a major advantage over static tracing in that:
>
> Static tracing is usually not enabled in production kernels, but the
> dynamic tracing infrastructure can be enabled without costs. So you
> can actually request traces (at least for the standard set of
> tracepoints) from Joe User to track down complex problems.

FYI, kprobes/SystemTap is already enabled in RHEL4.

Ingo