Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756032Ab0GEObG (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:31:06 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:54860 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754387Ab0GEObD (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:31:03 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 0/4] perf-probe updates: string support, etc. Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1081) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Chase Douglas In-Reply-To: <20100519195717.2885.90799.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 10:30:47 -0400 Cc: Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , lkml , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Galbraith , Frederic Weisbecker , systemtap , DLE Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <56FC4434-EA6C-4A0C-A95B-3D7BE818774B@canonical.com> References: <20100519195717.2885.90799.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> To: Masami Hiramatsu X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1452 Lines: 44 On May 19, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Hi, > > Here is a series of patches which improves perf probe to > add below features. I cleared some coding style issues. > > - String support, which enables dynamic events to trace string > variables instead of its address. > > - Fixed-index array entry support, which allows user to trace > an array entry with digit index, e.g. array[0]. > > - Global/static variable support, which allows user to trace > global or static variables, as same as local one. > > > TODOs (possible features): > - Support dynamic array-indexing (var[var2]) > - Support force type-casting ((type)var) > - Show what deta-structure member is assigned to each argument. > - Better support for probes on modules > - More debugger like enhancements(%next, --disasm, etc.) > > Thank you, > > --- > > Masami Hiramatsu (4): > perf probe: Support static and global variables > perf probe: Support tracing an entry of array > perf probe: Support "string" type > tracing/kprobes: Support "string" type What's the status of these patches? They seem very useful to me, but I don't see them in Arnaldo's tree at git.kernel.org. Thanks, -- Chase -- 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/