On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:28:04PM -0400, Chris Moller wrote:
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> K.Prasad wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>      Sorry if I have missed out something I need to know before I
>> respond to this email. But the "trace" infrastructure (lib/trace.c)
>> already provides such a facility which more features such as per-cpu
>> buffer for faster transmission (it is a wrapper over "relay" which
>> sits on top of "debugfs").
>>
>> The interfaces provided by "trace" are much simpler/functional than
>> setting up a "debugfs" interface manually (see
>> samples/trace/fork_trace.c) and the directory structure and control
>> files setup by "trace" are already familiar to the systemtap code.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> K.Prasad
>> P.S.: "trace" is currently in -mm tree.
>>   
>
> Thought it might be interesting to check this out--the patched  
> 2.6.26-rc5 kernel built fine but panicked when I tried to boot it.  So  
You might want to directly try out 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 directly. It boots
fine on my T60p with default configs.

Thanks,
K.Prasad

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