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

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo at elte dot hu>
To: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
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: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:14:10 +0100
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> <20091114000627.48ED615E8@magilla.sf.frob.com>

* Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:

> > 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.

Some sort of flexible core dump server perhaps, driven by user-space 
logic? (vastly more flexible than coredump-filter or coredump ulimits 
are today)

	Ingo

Follow-Ups:
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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
- Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
  - From: Roland McGrath

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