Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 0/5] tcp: TCP tracer

From: David Ahern <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:56:33 -0700

On 12/17/14 1:42 PM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> It is not strictly necessary to carry vmlinux, that is just a probe
>> >point resolution time problem, solvable when generating a shell script,
>> >on the development machine, to insert the probes.
> on N development machines with kernels that
> would match worker machines...
> I'm not saying it's impossible, just operationally difficult.
> This is my understanding of Martin's use case.
>

That's the use case I am talking about ... N-different kernel versions 
and the probe definitions would need to be generated at *build* time of 
the kernel that uses a cross-compile environment. ie., can't assume 
there is a development machine running the kernel from which you can 
generate the probe definitions. This gets messy quick for embedded 
deployments.

David