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

Masami Hiramatsu
2009-05-12T22:03:06Z

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Here are the patches of kprobe-based event tracer for x86, version
>> 5, which allows you to probe various kernel events through ftrace
>> interface.
>>
>> This version supports only x86(-32/-64) (but porting it on other
>> arch just needs kprobes/kretprobes and register and stack access
>> APIs).
>>
>> This patchset also includes x86(-64) instruction decoder which
>> supports non-SSE/FP opcodes and includes x86 opcode map. I think
>> it will be possible to share this opcode map with KVM's decoder.
>>
>> This series can be applied on the latest linux-2.6-tip tree.
>>
>> This patchset includes following changes:
>> - Add x86 instruction decoder [1/7]
>> - Check insertion point safety in kprobe [2/7]
>> - Cleanup fix_riprel() with insn decoder [3/7]
>> - Add kprobe-tracer plugin [4/7]
>> - Fix kernel_trap_sp() on x86 according to systemtap runtime. [5/7]
>> - Add arch-dep register and stack fetching functions [6/7]
>> - Support fetching various status (register/stack/memory/etc.) [7/7]
>>
>> Future items:
>> - .init function tracing support.
>> - Support primitive types(long, ulong, int, uint, etc) for args.
>
> Ok, this looks pretty complete already.
>
> Two high-level comments:
>
> - There's no self-test - would it be possible to add one? See
> trace_selftest* in kernel/trace/
>
> - No generic integration.

Hmm, Ingo, could you tell me what I can do for the integration?
Would you means that I should use filters?

Thank you,