On Sat, Oct 17 2020 at 16:15, Alex Belits wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 18:08 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
>> On Sat, Oct 17 2020 at 01:08, Alex Belits wrote:
>> > I think that the goal of "finding source of disturbance" interface
>> > is
>> > different from what can be accomplished by tracing in two ways:
>> >
>> > 1. "Source of disturbance" should provide some useful information
>> > about
>> > category of event and it cause as opposed to determining all
>> > precise
>> > details about things being called that resulted or could result in
>> > disturbance. It should not depend on the user's knowledge about
>> > details
>>
>> Tracepoints already give you selectively useful information.
>
> Carefully placed tracepoints also can give the user information about
> failures of open(), write(), execve() or mmap(). However syscalls still
> provide an error code instead of returning generic failure and letting
> user debug the cause.
I have absolutely no idea what you are trying to tell me.
Thanks,
tglx
