Re: [PATCH 0/11] LTTng-core (basic tracing infrastructure) 0.5.108

[Ingo Molnar]

* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Following an advice Christoph gave me this summer, submitting a 
> smaller, easier to review patch should make everybody happier. Here is 
> a stripped down version of LTTng : I removed everything that would 
> make the code review reluctant (especially kernel instrumentation and 
> kernel state dump module). I plan to release this "core" version every 
> few LTTng releases and post it to LKML.
> 
> Comments and reviews are very welcome.

i have one very fundamental question: why should we do this 
source-intrusive method of adding tracepoints instead of the dynamic, 
unintrusive (and thus zero-overhead) KProbes+SystemTap method?

	Ingo
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