From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752928AbaC1N5t (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:57:49 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f44.google.com ([209.85.220.44]:61895 "EHLO mail-pa0-f44.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752559AbaC1N5p (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:57:45 -0400 From: Jovi Zhangwei To: Ingo Molnar , Steven Rostedt Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Masami Hiramatsu , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Frederic Weisbecker , Jovi Zhangwei Subject: [PATCH 25/28] ktap: add Kconfig Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 09:47:46 -0400 Message-Id: <1396014469-5937-26-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.4 In-Reply-To: <1396014469-5937-1-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com> References: <1396014469-5937-1-git-send-email-jovi.zhangwei@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jovi Zhangwei --- tools/ktap/Kconfig | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/ktap/Kconfig diff --git a/tools/ktap/Kconfig b/tools/ktap/Kconfig new file mode 100644 index 0000000..21f8d2e --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/ktap/Kconfig @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +config KTAP + tristate "a programable dynamic tracing tool for Linux" + depends on PERF_EVENTS && EVENT_TRACING + default n + help + ktap is a new script-based dynamic tracing tool for Linux, + it uses a scripting language and lets users trace the + Linux kernel dynamically. ktap is designed to give + operational insights with interoperability that allow + users to tune, troubleshoot and extend kernel and application. + It's similar with Linux Systemtap and Solaris Dtrace. + + ktap have different design principles from Linux mainstream + dynamic tracing language in that it's based on bytecode, + so it doesn't depend upon GCC, doesn't require compiling + kernel module for each script, safe to use in production + environment, fulfilling the embedded ecosystem's tracing needs. + + See ktap tutorial for more information: + http://www.ktap.org/doc/tutorial.html + -- 1.8.1.4