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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>,
	kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracing: Add task_prctl_unknown tracepoint
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 17:30:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241106173023.09322117@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANpmjNMMvZPWJG0rOe=azUqbLbo8aGNVZBre=01zUyST40pYxw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 22:59:25 +0100
Marco Elver <elver@google.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Nov 2024 at 22:23, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> ...
> > > That's pretty much it. I've attached my kernel config just in case I
> > > missed something.  
> >
> > OK, it's because you are using trace_pipe (which by the way should not be
> > used for anything serious). The read of trace_pipe flushes the buffer
> > before the task is scheduled out and the comm saved, so it prints the
> > "<...>". If you instead do the cat of trace_pipe *after* running the
> > command, you'll see the comm.
> >
> > So this is just because you are using the obsolete trace_pipe.  
> 
> I see, thanks for clarifying.  I always felt for quick testing it
> serves its purpose - anything equally simple you recommend for testing
> but doesn't suffer from this problem?

You can run trace-cmd, or cat trace after the run.

-- Steve

      reply	other threads:[~2024-11-06 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-05 13:34 [PATCH] tracing: Add task_prctl_unknown tracepoint Marco Elver
2024-11-05 16:31 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-11-05 16:53   ` Marco Elver
2024-11-05 17:02     ` Steven Rostedt
2024-11-05 17:22       ` Marco Elver
2024-11-06  9:22         ` Marco Elver
2024-11-06 15:18           ` Steven Rostedt
2024-11-06 15:28             ` Steven Rostedt
2024-11-06 18:12               ` Marco Elver
2024-11-06 21:23                 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-11-06 21:59                   ` Marco Elver
2024-11-06 22:30                     ` Steven Rostedt [this message]

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