add an option, let the systemtap doesn't check whether the probe point is at the start of an assembly instruction
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche@redhat.com
Mon Jul 16 15:33:00 GMT 2012
peng yu <yupeng0921@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
> But sometimes, I really
> need to probe an address which is not at the start of a statement. [...]
> [...] I think it is useful if the stap command can accept a
> new cmdline option, let it don't do the address valid check. So such
> systemtap script can work: "probe kernel.statement(0xc041df99)".
Thanks for the patch. But before we dig into that further, have you
tried
# stap -g 'probe kernel.statement(0xc041df99).absolute {}'
?
- FChE
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