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Message-Id: <20070502094707.4197ab7a.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 2 May 2007 09:47:07 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, wfg@...c.edu
Subject: Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans
On Wed, 2 May 2007 12:44:13 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org> wrote:
> > It is currently used as an instrumentation infrastructure for the LTTng
> > tracer at IBM, Google, Autodesk, Sony, MontaVista and deployed in
> > WindRiver products. The SystemTAP project also plan to use this type of
> > infrastructure to trace sites hard to instrument. The Linux Kernel
> > Markers has the support of Frank C. Eigler, author of their current
> > marker alternative (which he wishes to drop in order to adopt the
> > markers infrastructure as soon as it hits mainline).
>
> All of the above don't use mainline kernels.
That's because they have to add a markers patch!
> That doesn't constitute using it.
Andi, there was a huge amount of discussion about all this in September last
year (subjects: *markers* and *LTTng*). The outcome of all that was, I
believe, that the kernel should have a static marker infrastructure.
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