----- "Jovi Zhang" <bookj...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 10:19 PM, Michel Dagenais > <michel.dagen...@polymtl.ca> wrote: > > You may be interested in KGTP which implements a simple bytecode interpreter > > in the kernel to accept GDB tracepoints > http://code.google.com/p/kgtp/ > > > > The bytecode is quite limited but would be easy to extend. > KGTP is still not meet my requirement on Linux tracing. > ktap don't have gcc or gdb dependence, it's build from scratch, with a > clean design, this is very important.
KGTP uses the GDB remote protocol but does not use/require GDB. If you have the needed information about symbols, offsets... you can generate and send the bytecode yourself. > > Eventually we should be able to connect LTTng http://lttng.org/ and KGTP in > > order to benefit from the efficiency of LTTng for activating probes and > > retrieving data. > You are right, LTTng should be possible, and I already planed it, also > on some functionality of ftrace and systemtap. Such dynamic capabilities are definitely of interest both in kernel and userspace tracing. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
