From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946512AbWJTVQa (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:16:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946523AbWJTVQa (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:16:30 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:64395 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946512AbWJTVQ2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Oct 2006 17:16:28 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Martin Peschke , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" Subject: Re: [Patch] statistics: fix buffer overflow in histogram with linear scale References: <1161352724.3135.18.camel@dyn-9-152-230-71.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> <20061020115242.ff4acce2.akpm@osdl.org> From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler) Date: 20 Oct 2006 17:15:20 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20061020115242.ff4acce2.akpm@osdl.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andrew Morton writes: > So... what are we going to do with the statistics stuff? It needs users > to prove its desirability/suitability. I think there was some work done in > the SCSI area - did that come to anything? There may be an opportunity here for combining this and the markers-based lttng work. Statistics gathering would be just one of several possible back-end for events corresponding to scsi quantity changes: tracing or more elaborate probing would also be enabled. - FChE