Re: [RFC PATCH 00/11] bpf, trace, dtrace: DTrace BPF program type implementation and sample use

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Tue May 21 2019 - 17:50:52 EST


On Tue, 21 May 2019 14:43:26 -0700
Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Steve,
> sounds like you've missed all prior threads.

I probably have missed them ;-)

> The feedback was given to Kris it was very clear:
> implement dtrace the same way as bpftrace is working with bpf.
> No changes are necessary to dtrace scripts
> and no kernel changes are necessary.

Kris, I haven't been keeping up on all the discussions. But what
exactly is the issue where Dtrace can't be done the same way as the
bpftrace is done?

-- Steve