Re: [RFC PATCH tip 0/5] tracing filters with BPF

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Dec 05 2013 - 20:20:38 EST


"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Not to mention that in that case we might as well -- since we need a
> compiler anyway -- generate the machine code in user space; the JIT
> solution really only is useful if it can provide something that we can't
> do otherwise, e.g. enable it in secure boot environments.

I can see there may be some setups which don't have a compiler
(e.g. I know some people don't use systemtap because of that)
But this needs a custom gcc install too as far as I understand.

-Andi

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