| Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip 00/13]tracing/kprobes: Dynamic events on module support | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Date | Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:18:25 -0400 |
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On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 16:26 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Hi Steven, > > Here, I'd like to push updates of dynamic events and perf-probe > for supporting dynamic events on module. > > The main part of this series is 1-5th patches for kprobes and > dynamic event tracer, which allows us to add events on offline > kernel module. This means we can put events even on the init > functions of the drivers before loading. The requirement of > this feature comes from my recent experience of a driver > debugging. It had a timing bug in the initialization routine, > and it was hard to catch them without tracing the behavior. > > I added some perf-probe updates (which including some resent > patches), And it's OK to pull only the main part (kprobes and > ftrace patches) without perf updates. >
Thanks Masami,
I'll try to get to this this week. I've just been doing my main job at the moment ;) Which surprisingly, has nothing to do with ftrace.
-- Steve
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