From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2148 invoked by alias); 12 Jul 2008 23:08:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 2137 invoked by uid 22791); 12 Jul 2008 23:08:27 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:08:10 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m6CN80DG006569; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:08:01 -0400 Received: from pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (pobox-3.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.67]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6CN80cm028141; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:08:00 -0400 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.9]) by pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6CN7B3f000440; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:07:44 -0400 Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (ton.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.15]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B69B08001FF; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:06:54 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m6CN6cb6003813; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:06:38 -0400 Received: (from fche@localhost) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m6CN6bKc003811; Sat, 12 Jul 2008 19:06:37 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:08:00 -0000 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: James Bottomley Cc: Theodore Tso , linux-kernel , systemtap@sourceware.org, Mathieu Desnoyers Subject: Re: [PATCH] systemtap: add parser for simple markers Message-ID: <20080712230637.GA1976@redhat.com> References: <1215638551.3444.39.camel__22002.9595810503$1215638656$gmane$org@localhost.localdomain> <1215697794.3353.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080710142208.GC1213@redhat.com> <1215700996.3353.30.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20080710153017.GB25939@mit.edu> <1215886965.3360.16.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1215893086.3360.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1215893086.3360.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 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: 2008-q3/txt/msg00159.txt.bz2 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