user-space tracing on Debian... or..?

[Timo Juhani Lindfors]

corpaul <c.bezemer@tudelft.nl> writes:
> So for the last days I have been trying to get user-space tracing working on
> Debian.
> The first problem was that utrace is not supported, so we tried to compile a
> custom kernel with uprobes support.
> This worked, however, process probes are not supported.

How exactly did you build your custom kernel? Which kernel version did
you use? I tested this with squeeze two years ago and I think it
worked. The kernel I built is still at

http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/systemtap/linux/

and includes the source (the *.dsc file) that describes exactly the
patches that were applied.