Using systemtap cvs to store kprobe testcases

William Cohen wcohen@redhat.com
Wed May 11 16:25:00 GMT 2005


Lynch, Rusty wrote:
> Would it be appropriate for me to add a new top level directory to share
> kprobe test cases?  The systemtap cvs would be convenient, and even
> though systemtap is really only a consumer of kprobes, if the kprobes
> implementation has problems then systemtap will probably stumble across
> some of those bugs.
> 
>     --rusty

Yes, we discussed adding a testing directory for the kprobes support. 
Having it in the systemtap repository would make things a bit easier. 
There are some example tests on the email list that shoulds be 
contributed to that, e.g. measuring the overhead of kprobe operations.

-Will



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