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

From: Chuck Ebbert
Date: Fri Sep 15 2006 - 13:21:52 EST


In-Reply-To: <1158331071.29932.63.camel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

On Fri, 15 Sep 2006 15:37:51 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:

> > $ grep KPROBES arch/*/Kconf*
> > arch/i386/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/ia64/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/powerpc/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/sparc64/Kconfig:config KPROBES
> > arch/x86_64/Kconfig:config KPROBES
>
> Send patches. The fact nobody has them implemented on your platform
> isn't a reason to implement something else, quite the reverse in fact.

Yes, but the point is: until that's done you can't claim kprobes is a
valid tracing tool for everyone.

And things like net/ipv4/tcp_probe.c shouldn't be generally implemented
until every arch is supported.

--
Chuck
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