Re: instrumentation and kprobes really still "EXPERIMENTAL"?

["Abhishek Sagar" <sagar.abhishek@gmail.com>]

On 7/1/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> 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.
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