Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 15 Jul 2011 21:26:00 +0900 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip 00/13]tracing/kprobes: Dynamic events on module support |
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(2011/07/15 20:28), Steven Rostedt wrote: > 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. >> > > OK I pulled in everything but patch 10, as that seemed to have an issue > with the message that David Ahern brought up. I left that one out as it > really wasn't necessary for the other patches. If you want to just > resend that one patch with an update, I can pull that one in too.
Thanks, and patch 10, I've found that that actually fixed a bug of perf probe itself and have sent it to Ingo as another bugfix, so feel free to drop it from your tree.
Thank you,
> > -- Steve > >> >> Thank you, >> >> --- >> >> Masami Hiramatsu (13): >> perf probe: Support adding probes on offline kernel modules >> perf probe: Add probed module in front of function >> [RESEND]perf probe: Introduce debuginfo to encapsulate dwarf information >> [RESEND]perf probe: Warn when more than two lines are given >> [RESEND][CLEANUP]perf-probe: Move dwarf library routines to dwarf-aux.{c,h} >> [RESEND][CLEANUP]perf probe: Remove redundant dwarf functions >> [RESEND][CLEANUP]perf probe: Move strtailcmp to string.c >> [RESEND][CLEANUP]perf probe: Rename DIE_FIND_CB_FOUND to DIE_FIND_CB_END >> tracing/kprobe: Update symbol reference when loading module >> tracing/kprobes: Support module init function probing >> kprobes: Return -ENOENT if probe point doesn't exist >> [CLEANUP]tracing/kprobes: merge trace probe enable/disable functions >> [CLEANUP]tracing/kprobes: Rename probe_* to trace_probe_* >> >> >> Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt | 9 >> kernel/kprobes.c | 33 + >> kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 314 +++++++++---- >> tools/perf/Documentation/perf-probe.txt | 6 >> tools/perf/Makefile | 2 >> tools/perf/builtin-probe.c | 14 - >> tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c | 663 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.h | 100 ++++ >> tools/perf/util/probe-event.c | 165 +++++-- >> tools/perf/util/probe-event.h | 1 >> tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c | 752 ++++--------------------------- >> tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h | 43 +- >> tools/perf/util/string.c | 19 + >> tools/perf/util/util.h | 1 >> 14 files changed, 1304 insertions(+), 818 deletions(-) >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.c >> create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/dwarf-aux.h >> > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
-- 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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