Re: Porting "jump labels" to userspace (was: Re: [ltt-dev] LTTng-USTvs SystemTap userspace tracing benchmarks)

From: Roland McGrath
Date: Wed Feb 16 2011 - 15:13:41 EST


IMHO there is not really so much to the in-kernel implementation that it's
worth attempting to reuse the code in userland. Pretty much all the work
is in the details of the implementation that would naturally differ a lot
in a different context. If you understand the mechanism and the machine
details, then implementing it well for a userland context is not a big deal
and is cleaner to do from scratch than shoe-horning kernel-centric code
into a wildly different context.


Thanks,
Roland
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