Systemtap with kernel markers?

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:27:22AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> [...]
> Those markers aren't in Module.markers because the kernel subsystems
> in question (ext4 and jbd2) weren't built as markers, but directly
> linked into the kernel.

The Module.markers file is intended to contain markers both from
modules and vmlinux.  Perhaps something broke this recently.

> Is there a way to make stap support the use of markers compiled into
> the kernel and not in kernel modules?

Certainly.  The markers kernel API is not even module-aware, so
systemtap can't know.  All it needs is a list of them.

- FChE