Re: [RFC PATCH 00/28] ktap: A lightweight dynamic tracing tool for Linux

From: Daniel Borkmann
Date: Mon Apr 14 2014 - 11:29:18 EST


On 04/14/2014 05:11 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
* Jovi Zhangwei <jovi.zhangwei@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Obviously many people love ktap nowadays even though it's not a
C-family language, [...]

Imagine how much more widespread it would become amongst kernel
developers if it had C syntax - see PeterZ's reply for example.

+1

I think it would be awesome to reuse the kernel's BPF engine
with its C backend for this in the way that Alexei has started
in its original set; surely there's a lot of work that still
needs to be addressed, but it would allow long-term for just
having that engine to maintain, and also to exploit its
flexibility and speed (JIT) where we can.
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