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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>,
	   ksummit-2008-discuss@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	   Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
	systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:07:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080705100536.GA18534@lst.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1215251049.6320.15.camel@lappy.programming.kicks-ass.net>

On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 11:44:09AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Also, it would be really great if you could write probes in regular C,
> some pseudo C language just messes up my mind.

You can write probes in plain C, in fact I do this all the time.  what's
missing is a nice and easy to use channel to get the traces to userspace
and interpret them, and helper for poking at kernel data structures.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-05 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-30 13:57 DTrace Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-06-30 19:00 ` [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace Grant Grundler
2008-06-30 19:40 ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-30 20:00   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-06-30 20:19     ` Theodore Tso
2008-06-30 21:12       ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-06-30 23:02         ` David Miller
2008-06-30 21:13       ` James Bottomley
2008-06-30 22:10       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-01  2:42         ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-01  7:08           ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-01 10:15             ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-01 11:04               ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-01 12:13                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-02 20:27                   ` Sam Ravnborg
2008-07-01 20:06               ` Roland McGrath
2008-07-01 23:13                 ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-02  2:23                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-02 19:27                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-02 21:40                     ` Potential Systemtap topics for the Kernel Summit Theodore Tso
2008-07-02 21:51                       ` [Ksummit-2008-discuss] " Jonathan Corbet
2008-07-02 23:41                         ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2008-07-02 22:38                       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-07-02 22:54                       ` [Ksummit-2008-discuss] " Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-03  0:44                         ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-07-03  1:02                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-03  1:50                             ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-03  1:51                             ` Ulrich Drepper
2008-07-02 20:08                   ` [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace Joel Becker
2008-07-02 20:17                     ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-02 20:41                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-02 21:19                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-07-02 21:30                       ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-02 21:46                         ` J. Bruce Fields
2008-07-05  9:46                   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-07-05 10:07                     ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-07-05 12:12                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-05 18:08                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-05 13:50                       ` James Bottomley
2008-07-05 18:08                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-05 18:05                       ` K.Prasad
2008-07-07 14:36                         ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-07-07 17:44                           ` K.Prasad
2008-07-05 12:34                     ` Theodore Tso
2008-07-01  5:29   ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2008-06-30 19:59 ` James Bottomley
2008-06-30 23:52   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-07-08 23:32   ` Eric W. Biederman
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     [not found]   ` <20080627155018.GC14894@parisc-linux.org>
     [not found]     ` <1214583502.7698.15.camel@weaponx>
     [not found]       ` <20080627163056.GB1416@lst.de>
     [not found]         ` <20080628072605.GA505@in.ibm.com>
     [not found]           ` <20080629084002.GA24131@lst.de>
     [not found]             ` <20080630051034.GA4970@in.ibm.com>
     [not found]               ` <20080630112913.GA18817@lst.de>
2008-06-30 19:27                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-01  1:21                   ` Jim Keniston
     [not found]                   ` <20080706123414.GA9265@lst.de>
2008-07-06 15:47                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-06 16:36                       ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-06 18:05                         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-06 18:24                           ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-06 21:46                             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-06 22:47                               ` Karen Shaeffer
2008-07-06 23:15                                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-07  5:59                               ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-07-07 11:19                                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
     [not found]   ` <20080627182754.GB7549@mit.edu>
     [not found]     ` <1214597135.3394.82.camel@localhost.localdomain>
     [not found]       ` <aday74qlh08.fsf@cisco.com>
     [not found]         ` <4865B111.2040307@redhat.com>
     [not found]           ` <adavdzujh2u.fsf@cisco.com>
     [not found]             ` <20080704200055.GA11232@synapse.neuralscape.com>
     [not found]               ` <20080704224424.GA12454@synapse.neuralscape.com>
     [not found]                 ` <1215273663.3439.34.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2008-07-06 23:33                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-07-07 14:35                     ` James Bottomley
2008-07-07 15:02                     ` James Bottomley

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