Re: [Patch 1/2] Trace code and documentation (resend)

[David Wilder]

Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 09:23:28PM -0700, David J. Wilder wrote:
> > My last posting was mangled by my mailer.  I hope this one is better.
> > Also corrected Randy's concerns.
> >
> > Please see previous posting for more information:
> > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/9/19/4 (PATCH 0/2)
> >
> > Note: this patch requires "[Patch 2/2] Relay reset consumed" is applied.
> >
> > ---------<start of patch>------------
> > Trace - Provides tracing primitives
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Hunt <hunt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: David Wilder <dwilder@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  Documentation/trace/src/Makefile     |    7 +
> >  Documentation/trace/src/README       |   18 +
> >  Documentation/trace/src/fork_trace.c |  119 +++++++
> >  Documentation/trace/trace.txt        |  164 ++++++++++
>
> NACK, don't put code into Documentation/.  Put it into kernel as it's
> actually useful kernel code.  

Are you suggesting moving the example code into kernel? Or complaining 
about example code in /Documentation?

And add clone,exec and exit while you're at it.

Hu?  A syscall tracer sounds like a nice idea but that is not what I am 
trying to accomplish.  I will let Systemtap handle that.

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