> IOW, I'm trying to get an understanding of how you expect this feature > will actually become useful to end users - the kernel patch is only > part of the story. One user would be systemtap for user tracing as I understand. Systemtap has a userbase (at least I use it, although not for user tracing) Right now lots of distros apply ugly patchkits to handle this instead, which is not good (tm). -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>