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Re: Discussion at Linux Foundation Japan Symposium
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki dot motohiro at jp dot fujitsu dot com>
- Cc: Satoshi OSHIMA <satoshi dot oshima dot fk at hitachi dot com>, systemtap at sourceware dot org, mhiramat at redhat dot com, hisashi dot hashimoto dot wh at hitachi dot com, Yumiko SUGITA <yumiko dot sugita dot yf at hitachi dot com>
- Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:44:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: Discussion at Linux Foundation Japan Symposium
- References: <494A053D.4030808@hitachi.com> <y0mvdthbh4t.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> <20081219085519.041D.KOSAKI.MOTOHIRO@jp.fujitsu.com>
Hi -
On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:58:58AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > Systemtap always requires kernel debuginfo to use. Unfortunately,
> > > it is hard for users of some distributions to have debuginfo.
> >
> > Those distributions ought to be lobbied to improve this situation,
> > since there are many non-systemtap uses of debugging data - such as
> > debuggers, kernel- and user-space crash dump analysis tools.
>
> [...]
> In enterprise usage, crash dump analysis is provided by vendor.
> but tapset run on customer. [...]
That is just one scenario. Another compelling use for debuginfo is a
tool like oprofile.
- FChE