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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
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