Shutting down this list?

2012-07-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, The last message to this list was in March (and was really a question about systemtap, not utrace). As far as I know nobody has ported utrace to the latest stable 3.5 mainline kernel. So it might be time to close this list (keeping the archives of course). I don't mind keeping it open, but

Re: utrace for linux-2.6.38

2011-07-28 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 10:24 +0800, Wu, Jabin wrote: Hi Mr./Mrs., Very sorry for bothering you! If it is allowed, may I ask if utrace supports linux-2.6.38 at the moment and where can I get the patch. utrace for some releases can be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~frob/utrace/ There is a

Re: UTRACE PATCHES NEEDED

2011-06-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:35 +0530, Pradeep Chhetri wrote: I am currently working on systemtap trying to extract information from a userspace application which is running somewhere remotely. I am not able to configure my kernel for that. You might also want to ask on the systemtap mailinglist.

Re: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
utrace per se has no machine-dependent code. It requires modern support for machine dependencies in generic kernel code, i.e. user_regset and tracehook. The ARM kernel has a tiny subset of those, but not enough to be useful. Long ago I did 98% of the work for implementing user_regset and

RE: utrace support on ARM

2011-04-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Turgis, On Wed, 2011-04-20 at 10:00 +0200, Turgis, Frederic wrote: * utrace has not been accepted upstream. Does it mean it may lose traction ? Is community pushing for something else or happy with what they have ? Parts haven't. utrace builds upon regsets and tracehooks, which are both in

Re: utrace support on ARM

2011-03-29 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 16:26 +0200, Turgis, Frederic wrote: - http://people.redhat.com/roland/utrace is no longer valid. Where has it been moved ? http://userweb.kernel.org/~frob/utrace/ - Mail archive in https://www.redhat.com/archives/utrace-devel/ stops in December. Did I miss something ?

Re: Need information on utrace based user space API

2010-12-03 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 21:15 +0100, Pavan wrote: I am new to utrace and want to use it for instruction tracing user space applications. Can some one please help me with this ? I have read about uprobes, but am unable to get more details on how can i get it and how can i use it. Any help

Re: Need help on utrace

2010-12-01 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 22:36 +0100, Pavan wrote: I am new to utrace and want to know is there any way i can get an Linux ISO image with utrace ? Please help. I need it for my coursework. utrace is included in a couple of distros by default. Fedora, CentOS, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)

2010-01-18 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:53 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/18/2010 02:51 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote: And how many probes do we expected to be live at the same time in real-world scenarios? I guess Avi's one million is more than enough? I don't think a user will ever come close to a

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 7/7] Ftrace plugin for Uprobes

2010-01-14 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:29 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:23 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:56 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: This patch implements ftrace plugin for uprobes. Right, like others have said, trace events is a much saner

Re: [PATCH] For selinux sake allocate a fake unlinked shmem

2009-09-26 Thread Mark Wielaard
-off-by: Mark Wielaard m...@redhat.com Many thanks for forward porting it. I kept being busy with other stuff to do it myself. Looks good to me. Thanks, Mark

Re: x86 single-step issues

2008-07-09 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Roland, On Wed, 2008-07-09 at 14:28 -0700, Roland McGrath wrote: Are all the bugs you've encountered related to single-step covered in the ptrace-tests suite? I have some more fixes in the x86 bowels about ready to send upstream. From the status quo upstream, my changes get FAIL-PASS for

Step through signal (sigret)

2008-04-07 Thread Mark Wielaard
tests whether we can single step over the // sigret syscall at the end of the handler. On some kernels // (e.g. 2.6.24.4-64.fc8 x86) this cleared the stepping flag and let // the child run free. // // Author: Mark Wielaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] #include assert.h #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include