Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:44:50 -0300 | From | Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip 0/4] perf-probe updates: string support, etc. |
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Em Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:30:47AM -0400, Chase Douglas escreveu: > On May 19, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Here is a series of patches which improves perf probe to > > add below features. I cleared some coding style issues. > > > > - String support, which enables dynamic events to trace string > > variables instead of its address. > > > > - Fixed-index array entry support, which allows user to trace > > an array entry with digit index, e.g. array[0]. > > > > - Global/static variable support, which allows user to trace > > global or static variables, as same as local one. > > > > > > TODOs (possible features): > > - Support dynamic array-indexing (var[var2]) > > - Support force type-casting ((type)var) > > - Show what deta-structure member is assigned to each argument. > > - Better support for probes on modules > > - More debugger like enhancements(%next, --disasm, etc.) > > > > Thank you, > > > > --- > > > > Masami Hiramatsu (4): > > perf probe: Support static and global variables > > perf probe: Support tracing an entry of array > > perf probe: Support "string" type > > tracing/kprobes: Support "string" type > > What's the status of these patches? They seem very useful to me, but I > don't see them in Arnaldo's tree at git.kernel.org.
Thanks for reminding me about these ones, will look at them to get them in perf/core.
- Arnaldo
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