Systemtap in LWN Kernel Summit customer panel report

[Mark Wielaard <mwielaard at redhat dot com>]

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KS2007: The customer panel
http://lwn.net/Articles/248878/

Credit Suisse
[...]
Better diagnostic tools are needed; offerings like Concurrent NightStar
and Intel ATOM were mentioned. Mr. Bubba asked for a better SystemTap
implementation, setting off a small side-discussion on the quality of
that tool. Some developers discuss those patches in terms which are hard
to reproduce in a work-safe publication; others feel that most of the
work is reasonable. Tracing tools are a problem area; this subject came
up again later in the session.
[...]

Linux Foundation
[...]
There is interest in better security options - and, in particular,
security which is easier to manage. Some users are asking for an
integrated kernel debugger, though nobody is entirely sure why. A
related wish has to do with tracing tools - this led to another
discussion of SystemTap. There are problems with the fact that much of
the tracing code remains outside of the mainline kernel. It is hard to
blame the tracing hackers, though - they have been trying, in one way or
another, to merge tracing for several years. At this point, many of them
have despaired of ever getting tracing into the mainline. We may see, in
the near future, increased pressure to get some of the tracing code
merged even if there are still developers who are opposed to it.
[...]