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From: "K.Prasad" <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch 11/11] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces - v2
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2009 23:51:06 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090307182106.GA7524@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090307222955.25A7.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com>

On Sat, Mar 07, 2009 at 11:53:46PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> Hi
> 
> > This patch adds an ftrace plugin to detect and profile memory access over
> > kernel variables. It uses HW Breakpoint interfaces to 'watch memory
> > addresses.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: K.Prasad <prasad@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 
> > ---
> >  kernel/trace/Kconfig          |    6 
> >  kernel/trace/Makefile         |    1 
> >  kernel/trace/trace.h          |   16 +
> >  kernel/trace/trace_ksym.c     |  448 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  kernel/trace/trace_selftest.c |   36 +++
> >  5 files changed, 507 insertions(+)
> 
> Could you please update Documentation/ftrace.txt?
> I guess many user interesting this patch. :)
>

Sure. We have plans for a documentation file for the hardware breakpoint
interfaces (something like Documentation/hw_breakpoint.txt). I shall
update the Documentation/ftrace.txt with usage details for the kernel
symbol tracing plugin along with them.

Thanks,
K.Prasad
 

  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-07 18:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20090307045120.039324630@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2009-03-07  5:04 ` [Patch 01/11] Introducing generic hardware breakpoint handler interfaces prasad
2009-03-07  5:05 ` [Patch 02/11] x86 architecture implementation of Hardware Breakpoint interfaces prasad
2009-03-07  5:06 ` [Patch 03/11] Modifying generic debug exception to use virtual debug registers prasad
2009-03-07  5:06 ` [Patch 04/11] Introduce virtual debug register in thread_struct and wrapper-routines around process related functions prasad
2009-03-07  5:06 ` [Patch 05/11] Use wrapper routines around debug registers in processor " prasad
2009-03-07  5:06 ` [Patch 06/11] Use virtual debug registers in process/thread handling code prasad
2009-03-07  5:06 ` [Patch 07/11] Modify signal handling code to refrain from re-enabling HW Breakpoints prasad
2009-03-07  5:07 ` [Patch 08/11] Modify Ptrace routines to access breakpoint registers prasad
2009-03-07  5:07 ` [Patch 09/11] Cleanup HW Breakpoint registers before kexec prasad
2009-03-07  5:07 ` [Patch 10/11] Sample HW breakpoint over kernel data address prasad
2009-03-07  5:07 ` [Patch 11/11] ftrace plugin for kernel symbol tracing using HW Breakpoint interfaces - v2 prasad
2009-03-07 14:53   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-03-07 18:21     ` K.Prasad [this message]
2009-03-08 10:09     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-03-08 11:00       ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-10 12:21         ` K.Prasad
2009-03-10 19:55           ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-09 21:36       ` K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090319234044.410725944@K.Prasad>
2009-03-19 23:50 ` K.Prasad
2009-03-20  9:04   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-03-21 16:24     ` K.Prasad
2009-03-21 16:39       ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-23 19:08         ` K.Prasad
     [not found] <20090324152028.754123712@K.Prasad>
2009-03-24 15:28 ` K.Prasad
2009-03-22  9:35   ` Pavel Machek
2009-03-25  3:03   ` Steven Rostedt
2009-03-25  3:30     ` K.Prasad
2009-03-25  3:48       ` Steven Rostedt
     [not found] <20090407063058.301701787@prasadkr_t60p.in.ibm.com>
2009-04-07  6:37 ` K.Prasad
2009-04-08  8:02   ` Frederic Weisbecker
2009-04-08 11:12     ` K.Prasad

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