Am I reading too much into the last sentence, or are they actually trying to use existing probes with dtrace frontend:
> So with all those techniques now available in the linux kernel it will be exciting to see if dtrace for linux can unite them all.
We're only more recently looking at higher level languages, as a nice to have. Here's one project:
https://github.com/ajor/bpftrace
We can also look at taking the /usr/sbin/dtrace code (licenses permitting), and calling into libbcc and emitting BPF bytecode. That'd give us a D language front-end to BPF, so I can run my old DTrace scripts directly (plus sell more copies of my DTrace book -- I joke ;-)
Help on either of those projects would be appreciated (bpftrace or DTrace-BPF).