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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 11:12:18 -0800
From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 7/7] Ftrace plugin for Uprobes
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Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I do this all the time to limit the function tracer to a specific app.
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> echo $$ > /debug/tracing/set_ftrace_pid
> echo function > /debug/tracing/current_tracer
> exec $*

This seems pretty handy.  You should put this in scripts/tracing.
:-)

Do you have any other helper scripts you use commonly?
 -- Tim

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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Chair, CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer, Sony Corporation of America
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