Re: [PATCH -tip v5 4/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer

Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-05-11T15:50:30Z

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> writes:

> [...] But as with so many tracing bits in the kernel it's just
> lowlevel bits without a good user interface. We'd really need some
> high-level way for sysadmins/developers to use it. E.g. a version
> of the systemtap compiler that doesn't build a kernel module but
> instead uses the event tracer + the kprobes tracer. [...]

This (the translator detecting that a particular script is simple
enough to be executed in this manner) is theoretically possible.

- FChE