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CONFIG_RELAY and debugfs in SystemTap
- From: Tom Zanussi <zanussi at us dot ibm dot com>
- To: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:57:29 -0500
- Subject: CONFIG_RELAY and debugfs in SystemTap
Hi,
As discussed last week, I've made some changes to the runtime allowing
bulk mode (-b option) when using CONFIG_RELAY (kernel >= 2.6.17) to
store the relay files in debugfs rather than their current location in
/proc. Before I check them in though, I wanted to make sure nobody
sees any problems in doing this.
This change only affects systemtap running on systems with kernels >=
2.6.17 - for older kernels, the older CONFIG_RELAYFS runtime code is
used as usual, and debugfs isn't needed. The bottom line is that in
order to use bulk mode with kernels >= 2.6.17, you need to have
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS turned on in the kernel. For reference, debugfs is
turned on by default on Fedora kernels and SLES10 (but since SLES10
uses a 2.6.16 kernel, it doesn't really matter at this point).
Tom