Re: [patch 00/11] Text Edit Lock for 2.6.24-rc4-git3

[Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>]

* Heiko Carstens (heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com) wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2007 at 09:02:46PM -0500, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Here is a repost of the text edit lock for 2.6.24-rc4-mm3. It is useful to
> > coordinate modification of live kernel code patching.
> > 
> > It includes a modification to kprobes (its first user) and is useful for the
> > Immediate Values.
> > 
> > It could be interesting to queue it for 2.6.25.
> 
> Everytime I see your huge patchset I'm wondering what it is good for and
> give up since the patch set is large. It would be very helpful if your
> patch descriptions would not only describe what you do but also why you
> do it.

Kernel tracing, so that we can help userspace application developpers
and kernel developpers debug problems caused by system-wide
program interactions.

See :

The patchset, including the LTTng tracer :

http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/patch-2.6.24-rc4-git3-lttng-0.10-pre39.tar.bz2

To get the userspace apps that are needed to do something useful :

http://ltt.polymtl.ca/lttng/ltt-control-0.46-06112007.tar.gz
http://ltt.polymtl.ca/packages/lttv-0.10.0-pre5-05122007.tar.gz

http://ltt.polymtl.ca/svn/ltt/branches/poly/QUICKSTART
(a bit outdated)

Mathieu

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