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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 3.2 7/9] tracing: uprobes trace_event interface
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 11:59:16 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117105916.GA3664@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120117102231.GB15447@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


btw., i'd write the CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT .config help text:

 This allows the user to add tracing events on top of userspace
 dynamic events (similar to tracepoints) on the fly via the
 traceevents interface. Those events can be inserted wherever 
 uprobes can probe, and record various registers.

 This option is required if you plan to use perf-probe 
 subcommand of perf tools on user space applications.

In a clearer form:

 This allows the user to add user-space dynamic events on the 
 fly, similar to tracepoints. These events can be inserted
 into just about any user-space code transparently, and can 
 record register state there on the fly, which is then used by
 instrumentation tools.

 This option is required if you plan to use the "perf probe"
 subcommand of the perf tool on user space applications.

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-17 11:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-10 11:48 [PATCH v9 3.2 0/9] Uprobes patchset with perf probe support Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 1/9] uprobes: Install and remove breakpoints Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-25 14:39   ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-25 16:31     ` Oleg Nesterov
2012-01-25 15:13   ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-25 15:32     ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-26 14:14       ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-26 18:28         ` Denys Vlasenko
2012-01-30  9:51           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-26 13:38     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-26 13:45   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-01-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 2/9] uprobes: handle breakpoint and signal step exception Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-18  8:39   ` Anton Arapov
2012-01-18  9:02     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-18 10:18       ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-18 10:47         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-18 11:01           ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-20 22:57             ` Mike Frysinger
2012-01-25  8:12               ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:48 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 3/9] uprobes: slot allocation Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 4/9] uprobes: counter to optimize probe hits Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 5/9] tracing: modify is_delete, is_return from ints to bool Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 6/9] tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes traceevents Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 7/9] tracing: uprobes trace_event interface Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-16 13:11   ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 14:45     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-16 15:33       ` Jiri Olsa
2012-01-16 16:41         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17  9:28     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 10:22       ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17 10:59         ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-01-17 11:03           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17 11:22         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 11:57           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17 12:23             ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 12:27               ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 12:11         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-17 12:21         ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-18 10:07           ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-10 11:49 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 8/9] perf: rename target_module to target Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-16  8:34 ` [PATCH v9 3.2 0/9] Uprobes patchset with perf probe support Ingo Molnar
2012-01-16 15:17   ` Srikar Dronamraju
2012-01-17  9:39     ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-25 14:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2012-01-26 11:10         ` Ingo Molnar

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