Subject: Re: instrumenting the kernel for coverage
To: None <tech-kern@NetBSD.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/17/2004 10:35:18
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On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 11:02:32AM +1100, Ben Elliston wrote:

> Then I read about a Linux kernel patches that adds a tree of
> /proc/gcov gcov data files, one per kernel source file, that are
> available in a running system.  [...]
>=20
> Would anyone be interested in me writing something similar?

If you do, procfs is the wrong place to do it, whatever Linux might do.
Procfs is about processes. Kernfs is about the kernel.

Regards,
	-is

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