[PATCH -tip 2/3] Add coredump tracepoint
Ingo Molnar
mingo@elte.hu
Sat Nov 14 00:14:00 GMT 2009
* Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 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.
Some sort of flexible core dump server perhaps, driven by user-space
logic? (vastly more flexible than coredump-filter or coredump ulimits
are today)
Ingo
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