From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755326Ab0ICCkN (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2010 22:40:13 -0400 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:45135 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753764Ab0ICCkL (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Sep 2010 22:40:11 -0400 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Eric B Munson Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add trace points to mmap, munmap, and brk Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@redhat.com, hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, riel@redhat.com, peterz@infradead.org, anton@samba.org, hch@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <1283435985-21934-2-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net> References: <1283435985-21934-1-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net> <1283435985-21934-2-git-send-email-emunson@mgebm.net> Message-Id: <20100903113904.B665.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 11:40:05 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > This patch adds trace points to mmap, munmap, and brk that will report > relevant addresses and sizes before each function exits successfully. > > Signed-off-by: Eric B Munson These tracepoint are still poor than syscall trace. I don't think this is good idea. Please avoid fixed specific tracepoint. Please consider make generic.