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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	hch@infradead.org, David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 03/10] Allow userspace applications to use marker.h to parse the markers section in the kernel binary.
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 07:51:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070510065137.GA7943@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070510020915.900170085@polymtl.ca>

On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:55:58PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> One of the things I'm starting to work on is adding support for your
> kernel markers to systemtap.  I know the marker stuff is still in a bit
> of flux because you are trying to meet the (sometimes conflicting)
> requirements of the people on lkml.
> 
> One of the things systemtap is going to need is to be able to parse the
> '__markers' section so it will be able to look up a user-specified
> marker.  For instance, if the user says 'probe kernel.mark("foo") {}',
> I've got to see if marker "foo" really exists.

NACK.  This shouldn't be includedable from userspace and systemtap people
should stop doing crap like that but use kernel infrastructure everyone
else uses including runtime kernel code instead of stuffin all kinds of
crap into their broken translator.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-10  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-10  1:55 [patch 00/10] Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.21-mm2 Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 01/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Add kconfig menus for the marker code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 02/10] Linux Kernel Markers, architecture independent code Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  5:10   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-10 12:58     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 13:12     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 19:00       ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-10 19:46         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 03/10] Allow userspace applications to use marker.h to parse the markers section in the kernel binary Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:51   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-05-10 22:14     ` David Smith
2007-06-23  8:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-23  9:25         ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23  9:32           ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-23  9:49             ` Alan Cox
2007-06-23 10:06               ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-23 14:55                 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10  1:55 ` [patch 04/10] Linux Kernel Markers - PowerPC optimized version Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:57   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 05/10] Linux Kernel Markers - i386 " Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  9:06   ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-10 15:55     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 16:28       ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 16:59         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-11  4:57           ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-05-11 18:55             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-12  5:29             ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2007-05-11  6:04           ` Andi Kleen
2007-05-11 18:02             ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-11 21:56               ` Alan Cox
2007-05-13 15:20                 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 06/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Non optimized architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  5:13   ` Alexey Dobriyan
2007-05-10  6:56   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 13:11     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 13:40       ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 14:25         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 15:33         ` Nicholas Berry
2007-05-10 16:09           ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 07/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Documentation Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:58   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 11:41     ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 11:41       ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 12:48         ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 12:52           ` Pekka Enberg
2007-05-10 13:04             ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 13:16               ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-05-10 13:43                 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-10 14:04                   ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-05-10 14:12     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10 14:14     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-11 15:05     ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-05-10 12:00   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10 15:51   ` Scott Preece
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 08/10] Defines the linker macro EXTRA_RWDATA for the marker data section Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 09/10] Linux Kernel Markers - Use EXTRA_RWDATA in architectures Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  1:56 ` [patch 10/10] Port of blktrace to the Linux Kernel Markers Mathieu Desnoyers
2007-05-10  6:53   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-05-10  9:20   ` Jens Axboe
2007-05-10  2:30 ` [patch 00/10] Linux Kernel Markers for 2.6.21-mm2 Andrew Morton

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