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On 4/5/12 6:18 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-04-05 at 18:08 -0600, David Ahern wrote:
>
>>
>> I found that this lib needs to be an .so to work with trace-cmd's plugins.
>>
>
> And not just trace-cmd. I want to get those plugins to also work with
> perf. That is, have the kvm plugin (et. al.) make it so that perf does
> not need to rely only on the TP_printk() in the format file.
>
> But that said, it is trivial to make this into a .so. Just having a
> separate library would be a huge first step.

Right, I meant to get trace-cmd's plugins to work with perf.

I have a patch that applies to your set from last August for that 
purpose; it applies to Frederic's version just working on a header file 
name collision. I've been using the plugins-modified perf specifically 
for kvm events.

David