[PATCH 00/05] Linux Kernel Markers - kernel 2.6.20

Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org
Thu Feb 15 22:19:00 GMT 2007


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?



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