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Hi - Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > [...] Do you have ideas on how we can export the function symbol? > (is it necessary ?) It turns out that static variables like that get included in the ordinary symbol tables along with other (un)initialized globals - it has been making it into /proc/kallsyms. If the normal symbol table is not available, then some other measure would be needed to find the variable containing the function pointer. > [...] > #define MARK(name, format, args...) \ > do { \ > __mark_check_format(format, ## args); \ > MARK_SYM(name); \ > MARK_CALL(name, format, ## args); \ > } while(0) While varargs simplify some things, it sacrifices type-safety, in that a handler function would have to be varargs too. For the systemtap marker prototype, parametrized variants use scores of (automatically generated) macros, with different arity/type permutations, each self-describing and type-safe. Regarding a marker variant that would require kprobes (inserting a labelled NOP or few), it may be an appropriate choice where dormant marker overhead must be minimal and robust parameter passing is less important. - FChE
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