Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 08 Jun 2011 12:41:00 +0900 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 20/22] 20: perf: perf interface for uprobes |
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(2011/06/07 22:38), Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: >> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 06:32:16PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: >>> >>> Enhances perf probe to user space executables and libraries. >>> Provides very basic support for uprobes. >> >> Nice. Does this require full debug info for symbolic probes, >> or can it also work with simple symbolc information? > > It works only with symbol information for now. > It doesn't (yet) know how to use debuginfo :-)
So we can enhance it to use debuginfo for obtaining variables or line numbers from debuginfo. since probe-finder already has the analysis part, I think it's not hard to support userspace apps.
Thanks!
-- Masami HIRAMATSU Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Center Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
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