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SubjectRe: [PATCHv11 2.6.36-rc2-tip 5/15] 5: uprobes: Uprobes (un)registration and exception handling.
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On Mon, 2010-09-06 at 17:12 -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 06, 2010 at 11:06:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > The other things is that perf currently only supports per-kernel pid
> > > recording, while we'd really need per Posix process, which may contain
> > > multiple threads for useful tracing of complex userspace applications.
> > > I also suspect that this will fit the uprobes model much better given
> > > that the probes will be in any given address space.
> >
> > perf does report both:
> >
> > * { u32 pid, tid; } && PERF_SAMPLE_TID
> >
> > the pid is the process id (thread group leader like) and tid is the
> > task/thread id.
>
> It records both, but I haven't found a way to only record samples
> or trace things in a Posix Process.
>
> E.g. perf record -p seems to be only per-thread, not per-process.
> If that has changes recently everything is fine of course.

Hrm, the record code seems to look up all threads for -p and use only a
single thread for -t, didn't actually try it though so it could be
borken.




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