too many transport failure

[Josh Stone]

On 03/31/2011 05:40 PM, Zhiwei Ying wrote:
> pp() will print a long string, thought that consumes a lot of buffer.
> Does systemtap has a ppid(), only print the function address? And
> provide a map between ppid() and pp() offline, so I can restore the
> pp() information offline.

Beware, there actually is a ppid(), but it means "parent process ID".

Do you really need the complete source information that pp() gives?  It
would save a lot of bandwidth to use probefunc() in the .call probes,
just as you have in the .return probes.

You could get the raw probe address with a function like this:

  function REG_IP:long() %{
    THIS->__retvalue = CONTEXT->regs ? REG_IP(CONTEXT->regs) : 0;
  %}

Then, we don't have any automatic way to associate that to a pp(), but
you could manually save that in a global array and print them all in an
end probe as a translation key for some post-processing script.


Josh