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Tracepoints with BPF

Tracepoints with BPF

Posted Apr 14, 2016 2:03 UTC (Thu) by viro (subscriber, #7872)
In reply to: Tracepoints with BPF by bgregg
Parent article: Tracepoints with BPF

For the "tracepoints are harmless" theory? Hopefully it will be, at that; the question is how steep a price will we pay for that lesson...


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Tracepoints with BPF

Posted Apr 14, 2016 9:22 UTC (Thu) by mjthayer (guest, #39183) [Link]

I wonder whether there is a sweet spot between this and systemtap - using loadable modules to add tracepoints, to put the API-to-support issue to rest, and doing the rest with BPF. Of course, I am playing the armchair expert here without knowing if this is even feasible.


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