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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH 00/22] perf tools: introduce 'perf bpf' command to load eBPF programs.

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 09:37:04PM -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > We're also working in parallel on creating a new tracing language
> > that together with llvm backend can be used as a single shared library
> > that can be called from perf or anything else.
>
> Gurgh, please also keep normal C an option. [...]

Absolutely, I thought there was agreement on that when we started
merging all these eBPF patches ...

It might be 'simplified C', in that it's just a subset of C, but
please don't re-do something that works, especially if it's used to
instrument a kernel that is written in C ...

Thanks,

Ingo


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