linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

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Message-ID: <450B39DF.5000909@opersys.com>
Date:	Fri, 15 Sep 2006 19:40:15 -0400
From:	Karim Yaghmour <karim@...rsys.com>
To:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
CC:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, "Jose R. Santos" <jrs@...ibm.com>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Roman Zippel <zippel@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Tom Zanussi <zanussi@...ibm.com>, ltt-dev@...fik.org,
	Michel Dagenais <michel.dagenais@...ymtl.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Let us design a static marker mechanism that can be coupled at run
> time either to a dynamic system such as systemtap, or by a specialized
> tracing system such as lttnng (!).  Then "markers" === "static
> instrumentation", for purposes of the kernel developer.  If the
> markers are lightweight enough, then a distribution kernel can afford
> keeping them compiled in.

I'm all for it.

Karim

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