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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>,
	        lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	        systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
	        DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:06:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091114000627.48ED615E8@magilla.sf.frob.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Ingo Molnar's message of  Saturday, 14 November 2009 01:02:34 +0100 <20091114000234.GA24738@elte.hu>

> Oh, so SystemTap is the motivator of these tracepoints? 

Nope.  My suggestion about arguments to pass was just generic based on the
innate context of this tracepoint.

> Do you know about exact usecases where these tracepoints would be
> utilized? Would be interesting (and relevant) to list them.

Masami's colleagues do have something in particular in mind,
but I'm not sure whether they intend to use systemtap as part
of the implementation of that or not.


Thanks,
Roland

  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-14  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-11-13 22:52 [PATCH -tip 1/3] Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 22:52 ` [PATCH -tip 3/3] Add get_signal tracepoint Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:53   ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-14  0:12     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-16 21:52       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-16 22:11         ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-16 22:40           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-16 23:01             ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-16 23:46               ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-17  6:03         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-17 15:25           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-14  0:29     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 22:52 ` [PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:39   ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-14  0:00     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-14  0:02     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-14  0:06       ` Roland McGrath [this message]
2009-11-14  0:14         ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-14  1:49           ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-14  0:26         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:09 ` [PATCH -tip 1/3] Pass mm->flags to binfmt core_dump for bitflag consistency Andrew Morton
2009-11-13 23:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-13 23:45     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-11-13 23:16 ` Roland McGrath
2009-11-13 23:23   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-11-13 23:30     ` Roland McGrath

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