[RFC PATCH 0/2] Perf support to SDT markers

[Andi Kleen]

Hemant Kumar Shaw <hkshaw@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> This series adds support to perf to list and probe into the SDT markers.
> The first patch implements listing of all the SDT markers present in
> the ELFs (executables or libraries). The SDT markers are present in the
> .note.stapsdt section of the elf. That section can be traversed to list
> all the markers. Recognition of markers follows the SystemTap approach.
>
> The second patch will allow perf to probe into these markers. This is
> done by writing the marker name and its offset into the
> uprobe_events file in the tracing directory.
> Then, perf tools can be used to analyze perf.data file.

Nice feature

-Andi

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