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SubjectRe: [PATCH] tracing: Export key trace event symbols
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On Thu, 2015-04-23 at 16:28 +0100, Pawel Moll wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-04-22 at 16:36 +0100, David Ahern wrote:
> > On 4/22/15 8:47 AM, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > > Em Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 08:53:14AM -0400, Steven Rostedt escreveu:
> > >> >On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:24:51 -0500
> > >> >Ron Rechenmacher<ron@fnal.gov> wrote:
> > >>> > >I've looked at the above reference briefly and it appears that user-space
> > >>> > >would be mmapping the buffer read-only. Is that correct?
> > >> >
> > >> >Correct, but I'm sure we could still add something (if it doesn't
> > >> >already exist) to have userspace write into the buffer. Ftrace has that
> > >> >with the trace_marker file.
> > > There is something in the works, I guess Pawell Moll (sp) was working on it, and
> > > David Ahern (CCed) should know, David?
> > >
> >
> > I played around with generating perf events in userspace with the
> > intention of having the userspace events get merged with kernel events
> > during the processing stage, but I did not take it to the point of
> > integrating into perf. This was around October 2013. I got distracted
> > with other topics and have not come back to it.
> >
> > Pawel has a patch that allows userspace to inject events into the stream
> > via ioctl calls.
>
> In the last version it was even a prctl - no need for a perf file
> descriptor any more :-)
>
> But the patch requires more care if it's to go in, so I'm open to people
> screaming "yes, we need it!" ;-)

Forgot to quote the link:

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.api/5851

Pawel



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