From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754131AbXGBIyx (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:54:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751354AbXGBIyq (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:54:46 -0400 Received: from nz-out-0506.google.com ([64.233.162.233]:2334 "EHLO nz-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751584AbXGBIyp (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:54:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=azVkbCeHbSV54MK0G70eyfLXxa7mJROAbYeVcxLz5Aq1VkaFSZiBDya3AyQCwDxp6P8cCqD8uwrZ65iNP+jEwL8rlGAybk88q5WuIBe9sVVqJ935wyMCQ2pOGEg9gdw43Q5AFuXM7YqecEyQ6l1xi3vqV2HEWc3/qJnBMdmYito= Message-ID: <863e9df20707020154o5232e44ch37dd55811c377a8f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 14:24:44 +0530 From: "Abhishek Sagar" To: "Robert P. J. Day" Subject: Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"? Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" , systemtap@sources.redhat.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > isn't kprobes mature enough to not be considered experimental anymore? That would vary from arch to arch. > in addition, while most of the KPROBES config options depend on > > KALLSYMS && EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES > > the s390 architecture depends only on > > EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES > > and its instrumentation support is *not* listed as experimental. > > also, the avr32 entry is in the file Kconfig.debug, and depends only > on DEBUG_KERNEL. just an observation. This probably stems from the episodic growth kprobes across different archs. It can be cleaned up I suppose. -- Abhishek Sagar P.S: Adding systemtap in CC. - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/