On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 09:04:56PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
The killer app for this will be the ability to delete thousands of
lines of code from GDB, strace, and all the various other tools that
have to painfully work around the major interface gotchas of ptrace(),
while at the same
Hi -
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 05:25:13AM -0500, ty...@mit.edu wrote:
[...]
The killer app for this will be the ability to delete thousands of
lines of code from GDB, strace, and all the various other tools that
have to painfully work around the major interface gotchas of ptrace(),
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 07:04:01AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
[...] Also, if any systemtap person is interested in helping us
create a more generic filter engine out of the current ftrace filter
engine (which is really a precursor of a safe,
Hi -
tytso wrote:
[...]
Let me see if I can paraphrase those of your concerns that were substantive:
1) That if utrace is merged, and systemtap keeps on using it, there may be
some sort of chilling effect on kernel developers that would impede
utrace's future development.
This might
On 01/24/10 13:01, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
... all add up to a mere nudge away from entirely evil. If so, I
wonder if your sort of grossly bimodal view of ethical virtue is going
to foster the right sorts of change in the linux kernel community.
Nothing like a good religious debate to
On Sun 2010-01-17 16:01:46, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 16:56 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
On 01/17/2010 04:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
Also, if its fixed size you're imposing artificial limits on the number
of possible probes.
Obviously we'll need a limit, a
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 14:48, ty...@mit.edu wrote:
The fundamental issue which Ingo is trying to say (and which you
apparently don't seem to be understanding) is that utrace doesn't
export a syscall (which is an ABI that we are willing to promise will
be stable), but rather a set of kernel
On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 12:23:33PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Kyle Moffett k...@moffetthome.net wrote:
On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 19:22, Linus Torvalds
torva...@linux-foundation.org wrote:
...
In that sense it might be better to fix/enhance ptrace, if there's interest.
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On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 08:42:13PM -0500, Kyle Moffett wrote:
Personally I don't give a flying about SystemTap; I'm interested
in things like the ability to stack gdb with strace, the RFC gdb-stub
posted a week ago, etc. None of those abilities would be out-of-tree
modules at all, and
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