Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Sep 2009 23:46:42 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] tracing/kprobes: Kprobes core/tracing/profiling updates |
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* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 12:52:52PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > Would be nice to merge latest -git into this tree and resolve the > > conflicts: > > > > kernel/trace/Makefile > > kernel/trace/trace.h > > kernel/trace/trace_event_types.h > > kernel/trace/trace_export.c > > > > Then i could pull it into tip:tracing/kprobes for more testing. > > > > Ingo > > > I've just merged latest upstream tree into it and pushed > that in a new branch: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git > tracing/kprobes-v2
Pulled into tip:tracing/kprobes, thanks Frederic!
> There were several conflicts, not trivial. I hope I haven't missed > something. But it boots well, I've tested a simple kprobe creation > and fetched its events through perf without any problem. > > Thanks, > Frederic. > > PS: I'd recommend you to define a name when you define a kprobe. > For example if you want to get the first argument of sys_open, > don't create it using: > > p sys_open a0 > > but rather: > > p:my_probe_name sys_open a0 > > Otherwise you will get a default kprobe name that doesn't seem > to make perf trace happy (put in my TODO list).
ok. Right now it's in a cooking branch, tracing/kprobes. I merged it to tip:master - we can propagate it to tracing/core once it's ready with all known bugs and quirks fixed and with significant perf functionality for it.
Ingo
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