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From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
To: Dave Nomura <dcnltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org, Maynard Johnson <mpjohn@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: proposed instruction trace support in SystemTap
Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070829160437.GA18075@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46D590B7.3040808@us.ibm.com>

Hi -

On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 08:28:55AM -0700, Dave Nomura wrote:
> Would the performance of utrace be acceptable for doing instruction 
> tracing?  

Probably.

> It sounds like a lot of the signal overhead of ptrace is eliminated.

Yes.

> Would utrace only be useful for user-mode stepping, 

Yes.

> or could it somehow handle the in-kernel case?

No.

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-29 16:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-02 23:01 Dave Nomura
2007-07-05 19:37 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-07-06 12:46   ` grundy
2007-07-06 14:59     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-07-06 21:43   ` Maynard Johnson
2007-07-07  1:58     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-07-10 15:47       ` Maynard Johnson
2007-07-10 14:12   ` Dave Nomura
2007-07-10 14:39     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-07-10 20:57       ` Maynard Johnson
2007-07-10 22:45         ` Jim Keniston
2007-07-11  4:31         ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2007-08-20  0:34       ` Dave Nomura
2007-08-20  0:37         ` Roland McGrath
2007-08-25 11:34           ` Dave Nomura
2007-08-29 14:57             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-08-30  5:43               ` kernel API for in-kernel single stepping Dave Nomura
2007-08-30 13:05                 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-09-04  3:05                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2007-09-05  5:02                     ` Dave Nomura
2007-08-29 15:40           ` proposed instruction trace support in SystemTap Dave Nomura
2007-08-29 16:25             ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2007-09-06  2:57           ` using utrace for instruction tracing Dave Nomura
2007-09-06 14:05             ` Jim Keniston
2007-09-06 18:28               ` Dave Nomura
2007-08-23 22:10         ` proposed instruction trace support in SystemTap Dave Nomura
2007-07-06 21:39 ` Maynard Johnson

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