Re: [RFC] Instrumentation (was Re: 2.6.11-rc1-mm1)

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Jan 16 2005 - 18:46:17 EST


On Sat, 2005-01-15 at 23:23 -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> > Well, that's really a core problem. We don't want to duplicate
> > infrastructure, which practically does the same. So if relayfs isn't
> > usable in this kind of situation, it really raises the question whether
> > relayfs is usable at all. We need to make relayfs generally usable,
> > otherwise it will join the fate of devfs.
>
> Hmm, coming from you I will take this is a pretty strong endorsement
> for what I was suggesting earlier: provide a basic buffering mode
> in relayfs to be used in kernel debugging. However, it must be
> understood that this is separate from the existing modes and ltt,
> for example, could not use such a basic infrastructure. If this is
> ok with you, and no one wants to complain too loudly about this, I
> will go ahead and add this to our to-do list for relayfs.

This implies to seperate

- infrastructure
- event registration
- transport mechanism

tglx


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