On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Andi Kleen wrote: > > 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) That's a brilliant reason to drop it right away. systemtap is the least of our worries. > Right now lots of distros apply ugly patchkits to handle this instead, > which is not good (tm). s/lots of distros/some enterprise distros where the management still believes that this is a valuable feature add/ You deliberately skipped the first part of akpms question: > How do you envisage these features actually get used? For example, > will gdb be modified? Will other debuggers be modified or written? How about answering this question first _BEFORE_ advertising systemtap? Thanks, tglx -- 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>