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Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:14:10 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>,
lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
systemtap <systemtap@...rces.redhat.com>,
DLE <dle-develop@...ts.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
* Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.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
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