2004-03-10 13:44:21

by Anticipating a Reply

Subject: Tracing the flow of execution in the kernel , executed on-behalf of a process !

Hi ,

Is there a way by which we can trace the flow of
execution of a process , when it is executing the
kernel code path ?

Any tool which does this would help understand
which all functions / code path is taken in the kernel
when a particular program executes .

strace provides just the system call invocation ,
but I would like to know what happens within the
kernel when the system call executes .

Kindly reply directly to me as I'am not subscribed
to the list .

Cheers !



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2004-03-10 14:03:42

by Karim Yaghmour

Subject: Re: Tracing the flow of execution in the kernel , executed on-behalf of a process !

Anticipating a Reply wrote:
> strace provides just the system call invocation ,
> but I would like to know what happens within the
> kernel when the system call executes .

Have a look at LTT:
http://www.opersys.com/ltt/

Karim
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