linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] systemtap: add parser for simple markers

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Message-ID: <20080712230637.GA1976@redhat.com>
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:06:37 -0400
From:	"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>
Cc:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	systemtap@...rceware.org,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] systemtap: add parser for simple markers

Hi -

> This is the systemtap piece that allows you to use simple markers as
> probe points for people who want to play around with the
> functionality. [...]

Clever.  We can include support for this as soon as kernel-side
simple_mark widget go upstream.

(For completeness, the code would need test cases, docs, and desirably
support for wildcarding as in probe kernel.simple_mark("*").)


- FChE
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