From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24992 invoked by alias); 6 Jul 2008 23:15:52 -0000 Received: (qmail 24984 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jul 2008 23:15:51 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 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; Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:15:34 +0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m66NFW3Z023831; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:15:32 -0400 Received: from pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (pobox-3.corp.redhat.com [10.11.255.67]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m66NFWS8014629; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:15:32 -0400 Received: from touchme.toronto.redhat.com (IDENT:postfix@touchme.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.9]) by pobox-3.corp.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m66NF7YQ025311; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:15:32 -0400 Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (ton.yyz.redhat.com [10.15.16.15]) by touchme.toronto.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA64F8001FF; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:14:50 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ton.toronto.redhat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m66NEYpk008145; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:14:34 -0400 Received: (from fche@localhost) by ton.toronto.redhat.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id m66NEYoK008144; Sun, 6 Jul 2008 19:14:34 -0400 Date: Sun, 06 Jul 2008 23:15:00 -0000 From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" To: Karen Shaeffer Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [Ksummit-2008-discuss] DTrace Message-ID: <20080706231434.GM2881@redhat.com> References: <20080630051034.GA4970@in.ibm.com> <20080630112913.GA18817@lst.de> <20080630171246.GB21660@redhat.com> <20080706123414.GA9265@lst.de> <20080706154612.GL2881@redhat.com> <20080706163533.GA16721@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080706182307.GA29895@2ka.mipt.ru> <20080706213920.GA1936@redhat.com> <20080706224631.GA6222@synapse.neuralscape.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080706224631.GA6222@synapse.neuralscape.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.58 on 172.16.52.254 Mailing-List: contact systemtap-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: systemtap-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q3/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 Hi - On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 03:46:31PM -0700, Karen Shaeffer wrote: > > (I assume you know that utrace is a kernel-side API. You may realize > > is that we are using it (via another layered module uprobes) to place > > probes into user-space programs.) > > I was wondering. I am going to try to work with systemtap with > a kernel.org 2.6.25.x kernel. My understanding is that neither > utrace or uprobes is in there. I did clone systemtap git, but > it doesn't look like there are any kernel patches in there. The upstream-this-later parts are in .../runtime/uprobes in the form of a self-contained module, not as a kernel patch. > Roland's utrace kernel patches stop at 2.6.24. Please advise me? See roland's utrace git tree git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frob/linux-2.6-utrace.git - FChE