Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH tip 0/5] tracing filters with BPF | Date | Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:20:25 -0800 |
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> 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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