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Date:	Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:24:44 +0530
From:	"Abhishek Sagar" <sagar.abhishek@...il.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	systemtap@...rces.redhat.com
Subject: Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...dspring.com> wrote:
> isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore?

That would vary from arch to arch.

>   in addition, while most of the KPROBES config options depend on
>
>   KALLSYMS && EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES
>
> the s390 architecture depends only on
>
>   EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES
>
> and its instrumentation support is *not* listed as experimental.
>
>   also, the avr32 entry is in the file Kconfig.debug, and depends only
> on DEBUG_KERNEL.  just an observation.

This probably stems from the episodic growth kprobes across different
archs. It can be cleaned up I suppose.

--
Abhishek Sagar

P.S: Adding systemtap in CC.
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