linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)

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Message-ID: <4726649A.5020605@garzik.org>
Date:	Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:54:18 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>
CC:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	hch@...radead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@...ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <pzijlstr@...hat.com>,
	Philippe Elie <phil.el@...adoo.fr>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"William L. Irwin" <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <christoph@...eter.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)

Randy Dunlap wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Oct 2007 17:51:38 -0400 Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Since we already have the Instrumentation menu in
>> kernel/Kconfig.instrumentation and instrumentation code all over the
>> kernel tree:
>>
>> arch/*/oprofile/*.c
>> kernel/kprobes.c
>> arch/*/kernel/kprobes.c
>> kernel/marker.c
>> kernel/profile.c
>> kernel/lockdep.c
>> vm/vmstat.c
>> block/blktrace.c
>> drivers/base/power/trace.c
>>
>> We could move them to
>>
>> instrumentation/
>> arch/*/instrumentation/
>>
>> Therefore, we could also move the kprobes and marker samples under
>>
>> instrumentation/samples/
>>
>> Here is a link to a git repository containing the changes, based on
>> 2.6.24-rc1:
>>
>> git://ltt.polymtl.ca/linux-2.6-instrumentation.git instrumentation-for-linus
>> (the interesting range is : v2.6.24-rc1..instrumentation-for-linus)
>>
>> Through the gitweb interface:
>> http://ltt.polymtl.ca/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=linux-2.6-instrumentation.git
>>
>> Feedback is appreciated. Sorry for the huge CC list, but the change
>> involves many maintainers.
> 
> Two more added.  Jeff Garzik and Christoph H. sometimes have some comments
> about this.
> 
> It would be helpful if we could get comments on this in the next day
> or two [instead of in 1-2 weeks].

"instrumentation" is long, and painful to the fingers :)

	Jeff


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