copy faults from user_string* functions
Frank Ch. Eigler
fche@redhat.com
Sat Jul 27 00:22:00 GMT 2013
Hi, Eric -
On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 05:56:02PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote:
> [...]
> Is there any optional way to get stap to trigger page faults to get
> that data?
Not easily. Perhaps from the tracing site, the code could load a few
bytes of the strings whose addresses are being passed. Perhaps try an
mlock() or some other explicit data-segment-dereference loop during
program startup?
> When tracing, losing a little performance is OK, especially with
> cmogstored (which is entirely network/disk bound).
Understood.
- FChE
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