From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18329 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2007 13:00:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 18319 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Mar 2007 13:00:05 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from wildebeest.demon.nl (HELO gnu.wildebeest.org) (83.160.170.119) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:00:00 +0000 Received: from dijkstra.wildebeest.org ([192.168.1.29]) by gnu.wildebeest.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HMktt-0005GJ-Ok for frysk@sourceware.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 14:00:50 +0100 Subject: Re: Fosdem impressions, frysk, packaging, tracepoints, kprobes and gdb From: Mark Wielaard To: Frysk List In-Reply-To: <1172584523.3777.66.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> References: <1172584523.3777.66.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:00:00 -0000 Message-Id: <1172753994.4388.30.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.3 (2.8.3-1.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact frysk-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: frysk-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-q1/txt/msg00168.txt.bz2 On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 14:55 +0100, Mark Wielaard wrote: > Driving home the point that we might actually share much more ideas with > something like gdb was the talk by Jim Blandy on gdb, tracepoints and > kprobes for debugging the linux kernel you are running > on your machine. This was really fascinating and he gave a very > impressive demo of collecting live trace data on the machine he was > giving the presentation on and then using the captured information to > drive gdb to show the call-stack, registers, function arguments and > contents of various structs passed around at various times during the > trace. http://www.red-bean.com/trac/tracepoints The video (Ogg/Theora) of his presentation is online at: http://ftp.belnet.be/mirrors/FOSDEM/2007/FOSDEM2007-GDBTracePoints.ogg Cheers, Mark