Defintion of CONTEXT
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche@redhat.com
Fri Aug 3 16:50:00 GMT 2012
Domenico Di Leo <domenico.dileo@unina.it> writes:
> in several stp scripts, files .c and .h appear the variable CONTEXT,
> I would like to take at look at its definition,
> I guess it is a struct, but where is it defined?
CONTEXT is a pointer into a "struct context[]" array, which is a place
to store sizeable local variables for the currently running
probe/function. Such locals are stored on the heap rather than on the
(scarce) kernel stack.
- FChE
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