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More user-space probes
- From: David Smith <dsmith at redhat dot com>
- To: Systemtap List <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 08:40:32 -0500
- Subject: More user-space probes
I've just finished implementing some new forms of user-space probing.
Here's an example script:
probe process("/bin/ls").exec { print("ls exec'ed!\n") }
probe process("/bin/ls").syscall { printf("|%d", $syscall) }
probe process("/bin/ls").syscall.return { print("+") }
probe process("/bin/ls").death { print("\nls done!\n") }
There are 5 new probe variants:
process(PID_OR_PATH).clone
process(PID_OR_PATH).exec
process(PID_OR_PATH).death
process(PID_OR_PATH).syscall
process(PID_OR_PATH).syscall.return
(Internally, these are implemented using utrace. These probe types also
use the new "task_finder" framework, which provides the support by
probing by PID or by PATH. Eventually, the existing uprobes probes (and
the future itrace probes) should be converted to use the "task_finder"
framework.)
Feel free to try out the new probe types and let me know if you find any
issues.
--
David Smith
dsmith@redhat.com
Red Hat
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