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Message-ID: <20071029230409.GB16943@Krystal>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:04:09 -0400
From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>, 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>,
Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: [RFC] Create instrumentation directory (git repository)
* Jeff Garzik (jeff@...zik.org) wrote:
> 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 :)
>
Quoting my post from last week:
> My main concern is that 15 characters long directory name might be
> inelegant (however, it only beats Documentation by 2).
And quoting the answer from Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu :
How so? i n s esc. 4 keystrokes (and still 2 more than D<ESC> ;)
Better suggestions are wery welcome. However, in modern shells,
auto-completion is cheap nowadays.
Mathieu
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Mathieu Desnoyers
Computer Engineering Ph.D. Student, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal
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