Re: systemtap broken by removal of register_timer_hook

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi -
> 
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 02:49:53PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > Sounds good, would you like to propose a version? We are also
> > interested in a timer tick event tracepoint for dynticks debugging.
> 
> How about this?
> 
> Author: Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed Apr 3 10:35:21 2013 -0400
> 
>     profiling: add profile_tick tracepoint
>     
>     Commit ba6fdda4 removed the timer_hook mechanism for modules to listen
>     to profiling timer ticks (without having to set up more complicated
>     perf mechanisms).  To reduce the impact on out-of-tree users, a
>     TRACE_EVENT-flavoured tracepoint is added in its place.  Tested with
>     perf and systemtap.

I'd suggest mentioning SystemTap here as the driving motivation. SystemTap 
triggered a generic kernel improvement here, no need to hide its identity!

Thanks,

	Ingo
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