From: Mike Mason <mmlnx@us.ibm.com>
To: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Cc: Sanket Somnath Hase <sanket@cmu.edu>, systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: stap -x option
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:22:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AB8114.6090304@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46AA594A.2010005@redhat.com>
William Cohen wrote:
[snip]
>
> There are two issues with multiple probes. One is there will be
> additional overhead if there are more probes to run at a probe point.
> The other issue is that systemtap avoids recompiling the scripts when
> possible. It checks to see if a kernel module has been previously
> generated for a script, if so it reuses the module. If you attempt to
> use multiple instances of a script, systemtap may indicate that it can't
> load the module. The kernel only allow one instance of a module to be
> loaded into the kernel. You may need to resort to using the "-m" option
> to produce different modules to load.
While I think it's best to avoid running multiple instances of the same
script, it should still be allowed. I ran into this yesterday when
I wanted to test the impact of running multiple instances of a script
I wrote. Using -m to accomplish this is cumbersome. Could we simply
add an option that tells stap to ignore the cache? It's simple, as
the following diff shows:
Index: main.cxx
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/systemtap/src/main.cxx,v
retrieving revision 1.74
diff -r1.74 main.cxx
102a103
> << " -d disable cache support" << endl
278c279
< int grc = getopt (argc, argv, "hVMvtp:I:e:o:R:r:m:kgPc:x:D:bs:uq");
---
> int grc = getopt (argc, argv, "hVMvtp:I:e:o:R:r:m:kgPc:x:D:bs:uqd");
311a313,316
> case 'd':
> s.use_cache = false;
> break;
>
Then, if you run into module name conflicts, simply run stap with -d.
Mike
>
> -Will
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-28 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-27 18:23 Sanket Somnath Hase
2007-07-27 19:14 ` Martin Hunt
2007-07-28 17:47 ` Mike Mason
2007-07-28 0:05 ` William Cohen
2007-07-28 3:50 ` Sanket Somnath Hase
2007-07-28 21:22 ` Mike Mason [this message]
2007-07-28 21:46 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
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