From: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
To: SystemTAP <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: Gavin Romig-Koch <gavin@redhat.com>
Subject: Using systemtap to look at futexs
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 13:43:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4469D6E2.4030807@redhat.com> (raw)
Monday I went to lunch with Gavin Romig-Koch. Gavin works in Red Hat
support. While we were talking he mentioned trying to solve a customer
problem that appeared to be caused by futex. An attempt was made to use
GDB to track futex operations from userspace. However, that really
slowed down the machine and never got the to reported problem. Gavin
thought that SystemTap might be useful in diagnosing this problem. This
morning I wrote a quick script to print out futex information while the
system is running. I don't know whether this would identify the specific
problem Gavin mentioned.
-Will
# futex.stp
#
# track which things are using futex
probe syscall.futex
{
printf("pid=%d exec=%s sys_futex(%s)\n", pid(), execname(), argstr)
}
probe syscall.futex.return
{
printf("pid=%d exec=%s sys_futex()=%s\n", pid(), execname(), retstr)
}
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-16 13:43 William Cohen [this message]
2006-05-16 21:57 Frank Ch. Eigler
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[not found] ` <20060516222913.GH17707@redhat.com>
2006-05-16 22:40 ` Tim Bird
2006-05-16 23:16 ` Vara Prasad
2006-05-16 23:16 ` Hien Nguyen
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