Re: [PATCH 0/1] Introduce an instrumented profiler using BpfTrace

[Alexei Starovoitov]

On Tue Jun 30, 2026 at 7:11 AM PDT, Aaron Lewis wrote:
> I am proposing this patch as a simple way of turning BpfTrace into an
> instrumented profiler. This approach has come in handy for me more than
> once, so I felt like it could be useful for others as well.
>
> I am not entirely sure where something like this should live in the
> kernel tree, so I took a chance and put it in
> "tools/bpftrace/instrumented_profiler". I am not attached to this
> location, so please feel free to recommend a better place for it to live
> if this doesn't seem appropriate.

Nice work, but, sorry, this kind of tools don't belong in the kernel tree.
'tools' directory is for things that kernel itself needs to build or debug.
'tools/perf' is the only true exception.