Re: [PATCH 00/18] [ANNOUNCE] Dynamically created function based events

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Sat Feb 03 2018 - 21:47:19 EST


On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 6:30 AM, Alexei Starovoitov
<alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 04:08:24PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
>> OK, so no new development in this was wanted? So the entire talk about
>> getting tracepoints into vfs and scheduling wasn't needed?
>
> I don't know who wants tracepoints in vfs.

AFAIK some people wanted to get some info (e.g. filename) from vfs.


>> Not if you are working in the embedded space and only have busybox as
>> your interface.
>
> did you notice bpfd project that does remote kprobe+bpf into an android phone?
> or phone is not an embedded space?

I never tried bpfd yet but it looks promissing.
It'd be nice to have such setup working on a typical yocto environment.
Anyway, I'd say that android phone is different that typical embedded
systems. :)

Thanks,
Namhyung