Re: [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20
Vara Prasad <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.systemtap,gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.kernel.tracing |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Andrew Morton wrote: >On 15 Feb 2007 10:28:57 -0500 >[email protected] (Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote: > > > >>akpm wrote: >> >> >> >>>[...] And what can I do with these markers? And once I've done it, >>>are there any userspace applications I can use to get the data out >>>in human-usable form? [...] >>> >>> >>The LTTng user-space programs use it today. Systemtap used to support >>the earlier marker prototype and will be rapidly ported over to this >>new API upon acceptance. >> >> >> > >That's good. > >It would be beneficial if some people from those projects could spare the >cycles to carefully review and runtime test this code. > > Sure, as soon as SystemTap translator supports this new marker mechanism we will give it a spin and report results. >Also, I'm not 100% clear on where we ended up with the huge >static-vs-dynamic flamewar. Did everyone end up happy? Is this patchset a >reasonable compromise? Or do we need a rematch? > > From my view this is a good compromise. We all realized in that long discussion thread that we need a way to mark the code in the middle of functions that can later be activated dynamically. Mathieu's current implementation meets that goal. I will be happy to see this in. Thanks, Vara Prasad