(forw) [akpm@linux-foundation.org: Re: [PATCH] markers-linker-generic]

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

You will probably want to comment on this...

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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 11:02:40 -0700
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] markers-linker-generic

On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:51:11 -0400
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:

> > What's this marker stuff about?
> > 
> 
> Hi Russel,
> 
> Here is an overview :

I am told that the systemtap developers plan to (or are) using this
infrastructure.

If correct: what is their reason for preferring it over kprobes?


Secondly, the code in -mm has no actual backend for delivering anything to
userspace or to anywhere else.  Why is this?  Which backends currently
exist, and which ones are envisaged?  Is there a plan to merge any backend
into the mainline kernel?


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