Re: [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-13 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Masami Hiramatsu mhira...@redhat.com wrote: Ingo Molnar wrote: * Masami Hiramatsu mhira...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, Here are the patches of kprobe-based event tracer for x86, version 5, which allows you to probe various kernel events through ftrace interface. This version

Re: [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-11 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Ingo Molnar wrote: * Masami Hiramatsu mhira...@redhat.com wrote: Hi, Here are the patches of kprobe-based event tracer for x86, version 5, which allows you to probe various kernel events through ftrace interface. This version supports only x86(-32/-64) (but porting it on other arch

Re: [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-11 Thread Steven Rostedt
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Two high-level comments: - There's no self-test - would it be possible to add one? See trace_selftest* in kernel/trace/ I'm not so sure. Currently, it seems that those self-tests are only for tracers which define new event-entry on

Re: [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-11 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Two high-level comments: - There's no self-test - would it be possible to add one? See trace_selftest* in kernel/trace/ I'm not so sure. Currently, it seems that those self-tests are only for tracers which define new

Re: [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-11 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Masami Hiramatsu mhira...@redhat.com wrote: Steven Rostedt wrote: On Mon, 11 May 2009, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: Two high-level comments: - There's no self-test - would it be possible to add one? See trace_selftest* in kernel/trace/ I'm not so sure. Currently, it seems that

[PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

2009-05-08 Thread Masami Hiramatsu
Hi, Here are the patches of kprobe-based event tracer for x86, version 5, which allows you to probe various kernel events through ftrace interface. This version supports only x86(-32/-64) (but porting it on other arch just needs kprobes/kretprobes and register and stack access APIs). This