Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:25:55 +0300 | From | Pekka Enberg <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/5] Revert "kmemtrace: fix printk format warnings" |
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Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu wrote: > On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:16:53PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> Question : >> >> Is this kmemtrace marker meant to be exposed to userspace ? >> >> I suspect not. In all case, not directly. I expect in-kernel probes to >> be connected on these markers which will get the arguments they need, >> and maybe access the inner data structures. Anyhow, tracepoints should >> be used for that, not markers. You can later put markers in the probes >> which are themselves connected to tracepoints. >> >> Tracepoints = in-kernel tracing API. >> >> Markers = Data-formatting tracing API, meant to export the data either >> to user-space in text or binary format. >> >> See >> >> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/compudj/linux-2.6-lttng.git;a=shortlog >> >> tracepoint-related patches. > > I think we're ready to try tracepoints. Pekka, could you merge Mathieu's > tracepoints or otherwise provide a branch where I could submit a > tracepoint conversion patch for kmemtrace?
Sorry, that's too much of a hassle for me. I'll happily take your conversion patch once tracepoints hit mainline. Mathieu, are you aiming for 2.6.28?
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