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Re: [PATCH -tip v8 7/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer
- From: Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead dot org>
- To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>
- Cc: 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>, DLE <dle-develop at lists dot sourceforge dot net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch at infradead 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: Sat, 30 May 2009 04:15:26 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v8 7/7] tracing: add kprobe-based event tracer
- References: <20090529000326.17532.70868.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20090529000353.17532.71995.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:03:53PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Add kprobes-based event tracer on ftrace.
Wouldn't it make more sense to call this the dynamic event tracer?
The use of kprobes is more an implementation detail than something
the user cares about.