Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 2 May 2007 09:47:07 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.22 -mm merge plans |
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On Wed, 2 May 2007 12:44:13 +0200 Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> wrote:
> > It is currently used as an instrumentation infrastructure for the LTTng > > tracer at IBM, Google, Autodesk, Sony, MontaVista and deployed in > > WindRiver products. The SystemTAP project also plan to use this type of > > infrastructure to trace sites hard to instrument. The Linux Kernel > > Markers has the support of Frank C. Eigler, author of their current > > marker alternative (which he wishes to drop in order to adopt the > > markers infrastructure as soon as it hits mainline). > > All of the above don't use mainline kernels.
That's because they have to add a markers patch!
> That doesn't constitute using it.
Andi, there was a huge amount of discussion about all this in September last year (subjects: *markers* and *LTTng*). The outcome of all that was, I believe, that the kernel should have a static marker infrastructure. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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