Re: [PATCH -tip v8 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-31 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Small question to start with: What's your (or Hitachi s/Red Hat's) use case > for this? It's obviously really cool technology, but I fear without > some good user space side to make it easy to use it will most likely > bit-rot which would be sad. Good question, Frankly

Re: [PATCH -tip v8 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-30 Thread Christoph Hellwig
Small question to start with: What's your (or Hitachi s/Red Hat's) use case for this? It's obviously really cool technology, but I fear without some good user space side to make it easy to use it will most likely bit-rot which would be sad. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

[PATCH -tip v8 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-28 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hi, Here are the patches of kprobe-based event tracer for x86, version 8, which allows you to probe various kernel events through ftrace interface. This version, I added per-probe filtering support which allows you to set filters on each probe and shows formats of each probe. I think this is more