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)
