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Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint

From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at redhat dot com>, lkml <linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org>, systemtap <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, DLE <dle-develop at lists dot sourceforge dot net>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:06:27 -0800 (PST)
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
References: <20091113225226.15079.90813.stgit@harusame> <20091113225233.15079.41600.stgit@harusame> <20091113233912.192A3100E@magilla.sf.frob.com> <20091114000234.GA24738@elte.hu>

> Oh, so SystemTap is the motivator of these tracepoints? 

Nope.  My suggestion about arguments to pass was just generic based on the
innate context of this tracepoint.

> Do you know about exact usecases where these tracepoints would be
> utilized? Would be interesting (and relevant) to list them.

Masami's colleagues do have something in particular in mind,
but I'm not sure whether they intend to use systemtap as part
of the implementation of that or not.


Thanks,
Roland

Follow-Ups:
- Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
  - From: Ingo Molnar
- Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
  - From: Masami Hiramatsu

References:
- [PATCH -tip 1/3] Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency
  - From: Masami Hiramatsu
- [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
  - From: Masami Hiramatsu
- Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
  - From: Roland McGrath
- Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
  - From: Ingo Molnar

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