[PATCH] instruction tracing probe

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Mon Jun 30 16:53:00 GMT 2008


Dave Nomura <dcnltc@us.ibm.com> writes:

> This patch set implements user space instruction tracing [...]

Nice work.  Too bad the pwoerpc critical-region stuff makes it all
complicated enough to justify making it a near-clone of the
utrace_derived_probe rather than being integrated there.

>        probe process(PID_OR_NAME).itrace [ if (<condition>) ]
>        {
>                // instr tracing code
>        }

Eventually this (the conditions) will work fast.  For now, it merely
works. :-)


- FChE



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