Ktap almost gets into 3.13

Yes, I'm fully aware of that. And while I respect Ingo's work a great deal, there are areas where it's my personal belief that his well-intentioned stewardship of key functionality is actually counter-productive. Specifically, his clout makes it so that any suggestion that runs counter to his own designs results in that proposal to be doomed to failure.

At this stage many of those that have tried are staying away. Personally I've given up on Linux ever providing meaningful online diagnostic to rival any of the other OSes out there. There's just too much kernel politics in the way. This recent idea that all new performance/monitoring stuff has to go through perf craziness is just one more on the list.

FWIW I think ftrace's user interface is kickass. It's not perfect and there are other ways of doing things, but ftrace certainly shows that it was architectured based on deep, real-life experience with tracing lots of data. Smarts just aren't enough.