# Re: \[PATCH v3 linux-trace 1/8\] tracing: attach eBPF programs to tracepoints and syscalls

- From: Steven Rostedt \<rostedt@goodmis.org\>
- Date: 2015-02-10 12:27:09 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2015/02/4428873
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2015/02/4428662/t.md

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On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 21:51:05 -0800
Alexei Starovoitov [ref] wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 8:46 PM, Steven Rostedt [ref] wrote:
> >
> > Looks like this is entirely perf based and does not interact with
> > ftrace at all. In other words, it's perf not tracing.
> >
> > It makes more sense to go through tip than the tracing tree.
> 
> well, all of earlier series were based on ftrace only,
> but I was given convincing enough arguments that
> perf_even_open+ioctl is a better interface :)
> Ok. will rebase on tip in the next version.

That's fine. If this proves useful, I'll probably add the interface
back to ftrace as well.

-- Steve
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