Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760492AbXIZQwW (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:52:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1759721AbXIZQwI (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:52:08 -0400 Received: from rv-out-0910.google.com ([209.85.198.186]:48997 "EHLO rv-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759532AbXIZQwF (ORCPT ); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:52:05 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=a04ufx0+PS7Qk86BChpWS+R+tUfEy0r60NPfuGGVlUUgF1EHrXwasdOgypjRY0puPwp4n8K/cHlODjJ6mCF6WgvFyIIthQFHMF3zzZI9UZtNWzbvMP5PO2EJ17aPEWVx1H8OX/5z0GIf5VccqU7uPPhxWUY1aanWG/IUABTXKy4= Message-ID: <863e9df20709260952p3cc99b02n15e411a9b29b9fd4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:22:04 +0530 From: "Abhishek Sagar" To: ananth@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: KPROBES: Instrumenting a function's call site Cc: "Avishay Traeger" , prasanna@in.ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070926043933.GA6460@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <1190758358.30061.13.camel@rockstar.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu> <20070926043933.GA6460@in.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 923 Lines: 20 On 9/26/07, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote: > PS: There was a thought of providing a facility to run a handler at > function entry even when just a kretprobe is used. Maybe we need to > relook at that; it'd have been useful in this case. That would be really useful. I was writing a tool to dump some function profiling info through /proc. This would help save an extra probe on each function's entry. - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/