From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753955AbXGBJ4W (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:56:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750816AbXGBJ4N (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:56:13 -0400 Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.146.177]:16913 "EHLO wa-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750725AbXGBJ4M (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 05:56:12 -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=C6OFUVeGa9gkU2Fc0BFe0NX974hHlooxuWwUApBZYvkrquvJiLJZQSlHVzVmk1uYI8kApgXAr5yi4y3IQi34a3giqYXYWjNPxQYVrJ4vm4aSStNNZx+tMFh9VMh1Q5TCdRj7r+TONW/LZDDADmaEyfML75QyEi5piH1buN+3lg8= Message-ID: <863e9df20707020256m75d24f52yfc5acd78cacffac7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2007 15:26:12 +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: <863e9df20707020154o5232e44ch37dd55811c377a8f@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/2/07, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jul 2007, Abhishek Sagar wrote: > > > 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. > > fair enough. however, at the very least, i'm thinking that the entire > "Instrumentation support" submenu can be made non-EXPERIMENTAL, while > individual entries therein can be EXPERIMENTAL on a choice-by-choice > basis or something like that. There's not a lot in that menu. It holds oprofile on every arch I grepped on. Oprofile might come across as being marked non-experimental but that may very well be due to the assumption that the menu that holds that option will enforce the EXPERIMENTAL check. How many archs do you see where oprofile and kprobe defer on their dependency on EXPERIMENTAL? Removing the EXPERIMENTAL check from the instrumentation menu will also require you to fix/double-check dependency on EXPERIMENTAL of oprofile/kprobes, provided you know that for sure. Which would bring you back to the same question you began with, namely, whether option xyz is EXPERIMENTAL or not. -- Abhishek Sagar - > 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/