These are the notes and action items for the Tracing roundtable at the Linux Foundation Collaboration summit, April 8-10 in San Francisco.
Attendes: Renzo Davoli, Mathieu Desnoyers, Jake Edge, Frank Ch. Eigler, Christoph Hellwig, Masami Hiramatsu, Jim Keniston, Roland McGrath, Steven Rostedt, Josh Stone, Elena Zannoni Kernel Tracing items: - make DEFINE_TRACE work in modules (Steve) - investigate markers removal (Christoph, Matthew) - the 25 magic google tracpoints (Matthew) - make the two major tracepoint implementations interchangeable at the API level (Matthew, Steve) - get djprobes and the instruction decoder upstream (Masami) Utrace and userspace probing: - get arm and mips converted to regsets and uprobes, set a cut off date for others (Christoph, Roland) - more ptrace cleanups to prepare for utrace (Oleg) - in-kernel gdb server for debugging userspace (Frank) - get uprobes upstream piecemail, including backing the gdbserver (Jim)