From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17850 invoked by alias); 1 Mar 2007 16:30:10 -0000 Received: (qmail 17842 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Mar 2007 16:30:09 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:29:51 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l21GTl6k023587; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:29:47 -0500 Received: from pobox.toronto.redhat.com (pobox.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.4]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id l21GTcOK026839; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:29:46 -0500 Received: from [172.16.14.55] (toner.toronto.redhat.com [172.16.14.55]) by pobox.toronto.redhat.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l21GTbUb022336; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:29:38 -0500 Message-ID: <45E6FF71.8020300@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 16:30:00 -0000 From: Sami Wagiaalla User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070212) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Wielaard CC: Frysk List Subject: Re: Fosdem impressions, frysk, packaging, tracepoints, kprobes and gdb References: <1172584523.3777.66.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> <1172753994.4388.30.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> In-Reply-To: <1172753994.4388.30.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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/msg00170.txt.bz2 Mark Wielaard wrote: > 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 > Wow... way cool :) Sami Wagiaalla