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Re: [PATCH] tracepoints: Generate Module.tracepoints file
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: Jan Blunck <jblunck at suse dot de>
- Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu dot desnoyers at polymtl dot ca>, systemtap at sourceware dot org, ltt-dev Mailing List <ltt-dev at lists dot casi dot polymtl dot ca>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:40:25 -0400
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] tracepoints: Generate Module.tracepoints file
- References: <20080918150841.GW18393@bolzano.suse.de>
Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> writes:
> This adds support to generate the Module.tracepoints file by modpost. This
> can be read by tools like SystemTap very similar to the Module.markers file.
> [...]
For systemtap, the problem with tracepoints is not so much knowing the
list of them, but knowing how to dynamically interface to them. In
particular, the parameter type signatures are a problem because they
can be general C type decls, which are hard just to parse.
- FChE