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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Török Edwin" <edwintorok@gmail.com>
Cc: srostedt@redhat.com, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	sandmann@daimi.au.dk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrl
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:03:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081027160348.GT5704@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1223817124-27239-3-git-send-email-edwintorok@gmail.com>


* Török Edwin <edwintorok@gmail.com> wrote:

> Usage example:
> mount -t debugfs nodev /sys/kernel/debug
> cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
> echo userstacktrace >iter_ctrl
> echo sched_switch >current_tracer
> echo 1 >tracing_enabled
> .... run application ...
> echo 0 >tracing_enabled
> 
> Then read one of 'trace','latency_trace','trace_pipe'

okay, this makes quite a bit of sense - and sysprof already kind of 
walks down into the user-space stack. (and so does oprofile, if asked)

Could you send this independently of the lock contention tracing 
patches perhaps?

	Ingo

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-27 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-12 13:11 [PATCH 0/4] ftrace: add userspace stacktrace support and semaphore-latency tracer Török Edwin
2008-10-12 13:12 ` Török Edwin
2008-10-12 13:12 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add support for userspace stacktraces in tracing/iter_ctrl Török Edwin
2008-10-12 13:31   ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-12 13:53     ` Török Edwin
2008-10-13  8:02       ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-26  4:05   ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-26  7:03     ` Török Edwin
2008-10-26 15:06       ` Frédéric Weisbecker
2008-10-26 13:15     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-10-26 13:29       ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-26 13:38         ` Török Edwin
2008-10-26 13:49           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-10-27 16:03   ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-10-27 16:16     ` Török Edwin
2008-10-12 13:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] Identify which executable object the userspace address belongs to Török Edwin
2008-10-12 13:12 ` [PATCH 3/4] add tracepoints in rwsem Török Edwin
2008-10-12 13:12 ` [PATCH 4/4] Implement semaphore latency tracer Török Edwin
2008-10-12 19:13   ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-12 20:10     ` Török Edwin
2008-10-22 15:28       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-22 15:41         ` Török Edwin
2008-10-22 15:48           ` Ingo Molnar
2008-10-22 17:22             ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-22 17:25               ` Török Edwin
2008-10-12 18:25 ` [PATCH 0/4] ftrace: add userspace stacktrace support and semaphore-latency tracer Steven Rostedt

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