Re: [PATCH -tip v5 0/7] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer and x86 instruction decoder

Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-11T20:05:48Z

Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>> Two high-level comments:
>>>
>>> - There's no self-test - would it be possible to add one? See
>>> trace_selftest* in kernel/trace/
>> I'm not so sure. Currently, it seems that those self-tests are
>> only for tracers which define new event-entry on ring-buffer.
>> Since this tracer just use ftrace_bprintk, it might need
>> another kind of selftest. e.g. comparing outputs with
>> expected patterns.
>> In that case, would it be better to make a user-space self test
>> including filters and tracepoints?
>
> Or have the workings in the selftest in kernel. As if a user started it.
> It does not need to write to the ring buffer, that is just what I did. The
> event selftests don't check if anything was written to the ring buffer,
> they just make sure that the tests don't crash the system.

Would you mean that it is enough to enable some probes and just
see what happened at boot time?
That's so easy to add.

Thank you :-),