Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Sat, Jan 15, 2005 at 01:24:16AM +0100, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> Putting a 200k patch into the kernel for limited usage and maybe
> restricting a generic simple non intrusive and more generic
> implementation by its mere presence is making it inapplicable enough.
> 
> Merge the instrumentation points from ltt and other projects like DSKI
> and the places where in kernel instrumentation for specific purposes is
> already available and use a simple and effective framework which moves
> the burden into postprocessing and provides a simple postmortem dump
> interface, is the goal IMHO.
> 
> When this is available, trace tool developers can concentrate on
> postprocessing improvement rather than moving postprocessing
> incapabilities into the kernel.

I completely agree with that statement.  We've been working in most
areas of the kernel to move or keep complexity and policy in userspace.
The same should be true for a tracing framework.

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