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

Richard J Moore
2006-09-15T09:17:33Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:

> > I don't think anyone is saying that static tracepoints do not have
> > their limitations, or that dynamic tracepointing is useless. But
> > that's not the point ... why can't we have one infrastructure that
> > supports both? Preferably in a fairly simple, consistent way.
>
> primarily because i fail to see any property of static tracers that are
> not met by dynamic tracers. So to me dynamic tracers like SystemTap are
> a superset of static tracers.

There is one example whethere dynamic tracing is difficult or very messy to
implement and that's for tracepoints needed during system and device
initialization. In this sense dynamic is not a practical superset of
static. However I believe the tooling, for dynamic trace should work for
static as well.

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