From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail191.messagelabs.com (mail191.messagelabs.com [216.82.242.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94CB78D003A for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 16:01:41 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:43:01 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 0/20] 0: Inode based uprobes In-Reply-To: <20110315180639.GQ2499@one.firstfloor.org> Message-ID: References: <20110314133403.27435.7901.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6> <20110314163028.a05cec49.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110314234754.GP2499@one.firstfloor.org> <20110315180639.GQ2499@one.firstfloor.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Andrew Morton , Srikar Dronamraju , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt , Linux-mm , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Linus Torvalds , Masami Hiramatsu , Christoph Hellwig , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , Oleg Nesterov , Jim Keniston , Roland McGrath , SystemTap , LKML , "Paul E. McKenney" On Tue, 15 Mar 2011, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > 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? > > I thought this was obvious. systemtap is essentially a script driven > debugger. Oh thanks for the clarification. I always wondered why a computer would need a tap. And it does not matter at all whether systemtap can use this or not. If the main debuggers used like gdb are not going to use it then it's a complete waste. We don't need another debugging interface just for a single esoteric use case. Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. 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: email@kvack.org