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Re: [PATCH -tip v5 4/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt at goodmis dot org>, lkml <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, systemtap <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, kvm <kvm at vger dot kernel dot org>, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>, Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail dot com>, Tom Zanussi <tzanussi at gmail dot com>
- Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 11:28:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v5 4/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer
- References: <20090509004829.5505.38720.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090509004859.5505.18729.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090511093224.GC23875@infradead.org>
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