From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
systemtap-ml <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip 0/4 V3] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 16:51:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49D3D3B4.4060702@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873acsm8qp.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> writes:
>> I agreed. Fortunately, Jim Keniston and I wrote an x86 instruction
>> decoder :-) which has been made originally for uprobe andd kprobes
>> jump-optimizer.
>>
>> https://www.redhat.com/archives/utrace-devel/2009-March/msg00031.html
>
> An alternative would be to adapt the x86 interpreter in KVM.
> I thought for some time that that one should be available in
> a more generic form in a library.
As far as I can see, KVM's instruction emulator is incomplete
(it doesn't cover all instructions...) and aims to emulate
instructions, not to analyze (so I couldn't relay on it).
Anyway, I think making x86 interpreter in a library is a good idea.
Thank you,
>
> -Andi
>
--
Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-01 20:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-26 22:58 [PATCH -tip 0/4 V3] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer Masami Hiramatsu
2009-04-01 13:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 14:09 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-04-01 14:27 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 17:40 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-04-01 17:47 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-04-01 20:14 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-01 20:51 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2009-04-01 22:15 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-01 23:21 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-04-02 7:36 ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-02 15:49 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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