Discussion at Linux Foundation Japan Symposium

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 08:58:58AM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> > > Systemtap always requires kernel debuginfo to use.  Unfortunately,
> > > it is hard for users of some distributions to have debuginfo.
> > 
> > Those distributions ought to be lobbied to improve this situation,
> > since there are many non-systemtap uses of debugging data - such as
> > debuggers, kernel- and user-space crash dump analysis tools.
> 
> [...]
> In enterprise usage, crash dump analysis is provided by vendor.
> but tapset run on customer. [...]

That is just one scenario.  Another compelling use for debuginfo is a
tool like oprofile.

- FChE