Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

2007-07-02 Thread Abhishek Sagar
On 7/2/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: consider this random Kconfig file arch/x86_64/oprofile/Kconfig: = config PROFILING bool "Profiling support (EXPERIMENTAL)" help Say Y here to enable the extended profiling support mechani

Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

2007-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Abhishek Sagar wrote: > On 7/2/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Abhishek Sagar wrote: > > > > > On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore? > > > > >

Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

2007-07-02 Thread Abhishek Sagar
On 7/2/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Abhishek Sagar wrote: > On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore? > > That would vary from arch to arch. fair enough. however, at t

Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

2007-07-02 Thread Robert P. J. Day
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Abhishek Sagar wrote: > On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore? > > That would vary from arch to arch. fair enough. however, at the very least, i'm thinking that the entire "Instrumentat

Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

2007-07-02 Thread Abhishek Sagar
On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore? That would vary from arch to arch. in addition, while most of the KPROBES config options depend on KALLSYMS && EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES the s390 architecture depe

instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

2007-07-01 Thread Robert P. J. Day
i just noticed that, in the Kconfig files that support KPROBES, both the "Instrumentation support" menu is still listed as EXPERIMENTAL, while Kprobes support within is simultaneously dependent on that same selection. for one, that's kind of redundant and, for another, isn't kprobes mature en