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

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Sep 15 2006 - 15:49:29 EST



* Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I see a major advantage over static tracing in that:
>
> Static tracing is usually not enabled in production kernels, but the
> dynamic tracing infrastructure can be enabled without costs. So you
> can actually request traces (at least for the standard set of
> tracepoints) from Joe User to track down complex problems.

FYI, kprobes/SystemTap is already enabled in RHEL4.

Ingo
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