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From: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	"David J. Wilder" <dwilder@us.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (resend)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 08:38:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F7D9FA.3090108@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070922093508.GC27827@infradead.org>

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:23:28PM -0700, David J. Wilder wrote:
>> My last posting was mangled by my mailer.  I hope this one is better.
>> Also corrected Randy's concerns.
>>
>> Please see previous posting for more information:
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/4 (PATCH 0/2)
>>
>> Note: this patch requires "[Patch 2/2] Relay reset consumed" is applied.
>>
>> ---------<start of patch>------------
>> Trace - Provides tracing primitives
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Martin Hunt <hunt@redhat.com>
>> Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@us.ibm.com>
>> ---
>>  Documentation/trace/src/Makefile     |    7 +
>>  Documentation/trace/src/README       |   18 +
>>  Documentation/trace/src/fork_trace.c |  119 +++++++
>>  Documentation/trace/trace.txt        |  164 ++++++++++
> 
> NACK, don't put code into Documentation/.  Put it into kernel as it's
> actually useful kernel code.  

Are you suggesting moving the example code into kernel? Or complaining 
about example code in /Documentation?

And add clone,exec and exit while you're at it.

Hu?  A syscall tracer sounds like a nice idea but that is not what I am 
trying to accomplish.  I will let Systemtap handle that.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24 15:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-22  4:23 [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (resend) David J. Wilder
2007-09-22  9:35 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-24 15:38   ` David Wilder [this message]
2007-09-24 15:41     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-09-24 16:13       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-24 16:32       ` David Wilder

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