Re: [RFC PATCH 00/28] ktap: A lightweight dynamic tracing tool for Linux

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed Apr 02 2014 - 03:37:17 EST



* Jovi Zhangwei <jovi.zhangwei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > I think nothing stops ktap userspace to parse ktap language and
> > generate 'internal bpf' format. gcc is unnecessary here.
>
> It's a big engineering problem, [...]

Sorry, but it will become an even bigger engineering problem if it's
merged to the upstream kernel tree!

You need to solve known design and implementational issues before we
can even think about any upstream merge.

Thanks,

Ingo
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