Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 08:03:53PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: >> Add kprobes-based event tracer on ftrace. > > Wouldn't it make more sense to call this the dynamic event tracer? > > The use of kprobes is more an implementation detail than something > the user cares about.
Hmm, I don't think so, because other tracers (e.g. hw breakpoint tracer) can also add their events dynamically by trace_add/remove_event_call. It's more flexible than this tracer includes those events. Thank you, -- Masami Hiramatsu Software Engineer Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc. Software Solutions Division e-mail: [email protected] -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
