linux-kernel - Re: [Patch] statistics: fix buffer overflow in histogram with linear scale

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Message-ID: <y0mpscmvgd3.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>
Date:	20 Oct 2006 17:15:20 -0400
From:	fche@...hat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Martin Peschke <mp3@...ibm.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch] statistics: fix buffer overflow in histogram with linear scale

Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org> writes:

> So...  what are we going to do with the statistics stuff?  It needs users
> to prove its desirability/suitability.  I think there was some work done in
> the SCSI area - did that come to anything?

There may be an opportunity here for combining this and the
markers-based lttng work.  Statistics gathering would be just one of
several possible back-end for events corresponding to scsi quantity
changes: tracing or more elaborate probing would also be enabled.

- FChE
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