On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 11:54:10PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 08:28:19AM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote: > > In article <2c408f23-6eae-da00-dfb2-ebc7b66e6...@gmx.com>, > > Kamil Rytarowski <n...@gmx.com> wrote: > > > > > >I'm for removal of gprof and deduplication of .a files in the base. > > > > > >While there, can we get rid of moncontrol(3), profil(2) and all the > > >corresponding code? > > > > I constantly see proposals to remove things from base without replacing > > the functionality first. Yes, the current state is poor but the > > "hand hurts, cut hand" approach is worse. > > Here it'd also be "cut arm", I think, since the kernel profiling that > relies on the same tools does still work, and, though limited, can do > some things out of the box that take nontrivial effort with the DTrace > FBT provider, the nearest alternative.
The kernel is quite different beast as it is self-contained. Joerg
