public inbox for systemtap@sourceware.org
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Vara Prasad <prasadav@us.ibm.com>
Cc: SystemTAP <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: [Bug translator/3534] New: support wildcarded linenumber  probe syntax]
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 11:12:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mk61s635k.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <455D55C9.3070709@us.ibm.com>


varap wrote:

> [...]  If i got your above idea correct, is this proposal is to
> support tracing of a function without tracing other functions it
> calls. [...]

Yes, that would be one use.  Or one could monitor a variable for
change that is suspected to occur someplace within the function: a
manual version of a watchpoint.  One might get basic-block coverage or
branch probability profiles:

probe kernel.statements("the_function@*:*") {
  hits[lineno()] ++  # lineno() in future, or pc() now
}
global hits
probe end {
  foreach (l+ in lineno)
    printf ("%d %d\n", l, hits[l]);
}

- FChE

      reply	other threads:[~2006-11-18 18:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-11-17 12:35 Vara Prasad
2006-11-19 11:12 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=y0mk61s635k.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com \
    --to=fche@redhat.com \
    --cc=prasadav@us.ibm.com \
    --cc=systemtap@sources.redhat.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).