Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 1 May 2015 13:49:43 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 00/22] perf tools: introduce 'perf bpf' command to load eBPF programs. |
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:37:04PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > We're also working in parallel on creating a new tracing language > > that together with llvm backend can be used as a single shared library > > that can be called from perf or anything else. > > Gurgh, please also keep normal C an option. [...]
Absolutely, I thought there was agreement on that when we started merging all these eBPF patches ...
It might be 'simplified C', in that it's just a subset of C, but please don't re-do something that works, especially if it's used to instrument a kernel that is written in C ...
Thanks,
Ingo
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