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Message-ID: <20150501114943.GA24094@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 13:49:43 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...mgrid.com>,
Wang Nan <wangnan0@...wei.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
acme@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com,
jolsa@...nel.org, lizefan@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
pi3orama@....com, hekuang@...wei.com, bgregg@...flix.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/22] perf tools: introduce 'perf bpf' command to
load eBPF programs.
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:37:04PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > We're also working in parallel on creating a new tracing language
> > that together with llvm backend can be used as a single shared library
> > that can be called from perf or anything else.
>
> Gurgh, please also keep normal C an option. [...]
Absolutely, I thought there was agreement on that when we started
merging all these eBPF patches ...
It might be 'simplified C', in that it's just a subset of C, but
please don't re-do something that works, especially if it's used to
instrument a kernel that is written in C ...
Thanks,
Ingo
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