[PATCH v1 0/5] perf/sdt: SDT events listing/probing

[Hemant Kumar]

Hi Masami,

On 10/01/2014 09:38 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (2014/10/01 0:29), Hemant Kumar wrote:
>> This patchset helps in listing dtrace style markers(SDT) present in user space
>> applications through perf.
>> Notes/markers are placed at important places by the
>> developers. They have a negligible overhead when not enabled.
>> We can enable them and probe at these places and find some important information
>> like the arguments' values, etc.
>>
>> We have lots of applications which use SDT markers today, like:
>> Postgresql, MySql, Mozilla, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, libvirt, QEMU, glib
>>
>> To add SDT markers into user applications:
>> We need to have this header sys/sdt.h present.
>> sys/sdt.h used is version 3.
>> If not present, install systemtap-sdt-devel package (for fedora-20).
>>
>> With this patchset,
>> - Use perf sdt-cache --add to add SDT events to a cache.
>>   # perf sdt-cache --add ./user_app
>>
>>    4 SDT events added for /home/user/user_app!
>>
>> - Use perf sdt-cache --del to remove SDT events from the cache>
>>   # perf sdt-cache --del ./user_app
>>
>>   4 events removed for /home/user/user_app!
>>
>> - Dump the cache onto stdout using perf sdt-cache --dump:
>>   # perf sdt-cache --dump
>>    /home/user/user_app :
>>    %user_app:foo_start
>>    %user_app:fun_start
>>
>> - To probe and trace an SDT event :
>>    # perf record -e %user_app:foo_start -aR sleep 10
> Looks great! :)

Thankyou :)

>
> However, when I've tried to build, I got below errors..
>
>    CC       util/sdt.o
> util/sdt.c: In function ‘sdt_err’:
> util/sdt.c:72:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pr_err’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>     pr_err("%s: No SDT events found\n", target);
>     ^
> util/sdt.c:72:3: error: nested extern declaration of ‘pr_err’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
> util/sdt.c: In function ‘file_hash_list__init’:
> util/sdt.c:489:3: error: implicit declaration of function ‘pr_debug’ [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
>     pr_debug("Error in madvise\n");
>     ^
> util/sdt.c:489:3: error: nested extern declaration of ‘pr_debug’ [-Werror=nested-externs]
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> Perhaps, you might working on the old tree. Could you update it?

Hmm. Yes, it was on an older tree. Will update it and repost them.

> [SNIP]
>

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Thanks,
Hemant Kumar