On Sat, Aug 04, 2018 at 09:12:03PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > On Sun, Aug 05, 2018 at 12:22:04AM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 09:26:00PM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote: > > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2018 at 01:46:35PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > But it uses the same userspace tools for analysis. > > > > I haven't been talking about gprof, I could care less about that > > program itself. That said, I would expect copying the interceptor > > Oh, FFS. Please read the *very first line quoted above*.
Yes, please do :) Especially keep in mind that *I* didn't say that. Joerg
