Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 05 Dec 2013 17:28:58 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH tip 0/5] tracing filters with BPF |
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On 12/05/2013 05:20 PM, Andi Kleen wrote: > "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. >
Yes... but no compiler and secure boot tend to go together, or at least will in the future.
-hpa
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