On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 03:28:04PM -0400, Chris Moller wrote: > > > K.Prasad wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> Sorry if I have missed out something I need to know before I >> respond to this email. But the "trace" infrastructure (lib/trace.c) >> already provides such a facility which more features such as per-cpu >> buffer for faster transmission (it is a wrapper over "relay" which >> sits on top of "debugfs"). >> >> The interfaces provided by "trace" are much simpler/functional than >> setting up a "debugfs" interface manually (see >> samples/trace/fork_trace.c) and the directory structure and control >> files setup by "trace" are already familiar to the systemtap code. >> >> Thanks, >> K.Prasad >> P.S.: "trace" is currently in -mm tree. >> > > Thought it might be interesting to check this out--the patched > 2.6.26-rc5 kernel built fine but panicked when I tried to boot it. So You might want to directly try out 2.6.26-rc5-mm1 directly. It boots fine on my T60p with default configs.
Thanks, K.Prasad