Re: [RFC] Userspace tracing memory mappings

From: Frank Ch. Eigler
Date: Wed Jan 23 2008 - 14:11:32 EST


Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> [...] Since memory management is not my speciality, I would like to
> know if there are some implementation details I should be aware of
> for my LTTng userspace tracing buffers. Here is what I want to do
> [...]

Would you mind offering some justification for requiring a kernel
extension for user-space tracing? What can the kernel enable in this
context that a user-space library (which you already assume will be
linked in) can't?

- FChE
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