Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754905Ab0GERpW (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:45:22 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:29737 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752387Ab0GERpV (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 13:45:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 14:44:50 -0300 From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo To: Chase Douglas Cc: Masami Hiramatsu , Ingo Molnar , lkml , Paul Mackerras , Peter Zijlstra , Mike Galbraith , Frederic Weisbecker , systemtap , DLE Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 0/4] perf-probe updates: string support, etc. Message-ID: <20100705174450.GB23506@ghostprotocols.net> References: <20100519195717.2885.90799.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6> <56FC4434-EA6C-4A0C-A95B-3D7BE818774B@canonical.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <56FC4434-EA6C-4A0C-A95B-3D7BE818774B@canonical.com> X-Url: http://acmel.wordpress.com User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1667 Lines: 46 Em Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 10:30:47AM -0400, Chase Douglas escreveu: > 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 for reminding me about these ones, will look at them to get them in perf/core. - Arnaldo -- 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/