[PATCH 0 of 4] Add support for dtrace compatible sdt probes on GNU/Linux (original) (raw)

David Holmes david.holmes at oracle.com
Tue Jul 31 05:15:04 PDT 2012

On 31/07/2012 7:52 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote:

On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 10:02:26PM +1000, David Holmes wrote:

Yes everything is Oracle internal now. So there may be a delay - sorry. The main thing that stops this being trivial is the need to validate the changes against DTrace on Solaris. I'm not even sure which tests need to be used. May I suggest that it would be really beneficial to have tests like these public. I do actually have an openindiana install, so in theory I could try building hotspot on that. I haven't done that because there are no tests that I could run. It is slightly irritating that a simple patch is stalled for months because nobody can find the proprietary/clossed tests to run. As far as I know everybody who looked at the code agreed this shouldn't impact solaris/dtrace. It could of course in theory, so it is good if someone runs the tests on that platform, but IMHO this is taking way too long and you are not empowering others to help you getting things done.

I understand and share your frustrations. Unfortunately the availability or otherwise of tests is not something over which I have any influence.

David

Thanks,

Mark

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