(2014/04/07 22:55), Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 09:42:03AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: >> I'd suggest using C syntax instead initially, because that's what the >> kernel is using. >> >> The overwhelming majority of people probing the kernel are >> programmers, so there's no point in inventing new syntax, we should >> reuse existing syntax! > > Yes please, keep it C, I forever forget all other syntaxes. While I have > in the past known other languages, I never use them frequently enough to > remember them. And there's nothing more frustrating than having to fight > a tool/language when you just want to get work done.
Why wouldn't you write a kernel module in C directly? :) It seems that all what you need is not a tracing language nor a bytecode engine, but an well organized tracing APIs(library?) for writing a kernel module for tracing... Thank you, -- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu...@hitachi.com -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
