From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31978 invoked by alias); 15 Feb 2007 22:19:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 31964 invoked by uid 22791); 15 Feb 2007 22:19:33 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,FORGED_RCVD_HELO,SPF_PASS,TW_KP X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp.osdl.org (HELO smtp.osdl.org) (65.172.181.24) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:19:27 +0000 Received: from shell0.pdx.osdl.net (fw.osdl.org [65.172.181.6]) by smtp.osdl.org (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l1FMIghB029860 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:18:42 -0800 Received: from akpm.corp.google.com (shell0.pdx.osdl.net [10.9.0.31]) by shell0.pdx.osdl.net (8.13.1/8.11.6) with SMTP id l1FMIfqD010415; Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:18:42 -0800 Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:19:00 -0000 From: Andrew Morton To: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Christoph Hellwig , Ingo Molnar , systemtap@sources.redhat.com, ltt-dev@shafik.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20 Message-Id: <20070215141841.6eed5fbb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: References: <1171224207118-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> <20070214231201.20918c6b.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63-osdl_revision__1.117__ X-MIMEDefang-Filter: osdl$Revision: 1.176 $ X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.36 Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q1/txt/msg00348.txt.bz2 On 15 Feb 2007 10:28:57 -0500 fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) wrote: > > akpm wrote: > > > [...] And what can I do with these markers? And once I've done it, > > are there any userspace applications I can use to get the data out > > in human-usable form? [...] > > The LTTng user-space programs use it today. Systemtap used to support > the earlier marker prototype and will be rapidly ported over to this > new API upon acceptance. > That's good. It would be beneficial if some people from those projects could spare the cycles to carefully review and runtime test this code. Also, I'm not 100% clear on where we ended up with the huge static-vs-dynamic flamewar. Did everyone end up happy? Is this patchset a reasonable compromise? Or do we need a rematch?