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Re: probing based on kernel source


On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
<ananth@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 01:46:13PM +0900, Jun Koi wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to probe a place coresponding to a particular line of a
>> particular file in Linux kernel souce code? If so, what is the syntax?
>
> See
> http://sourceware.org/systemtap/langref/node6.html#SECTION00062200000000000000
>
> If the particular line you are trying to probe can't be probed due to
> compiler optimizations, etc., stap will give you alternatives too.

So I suppose that stap returns a list of (kernel) addresses that might
be suitable to put the probe? If so, how can we know which one is
correct??

Thanks,
Jun


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