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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Bryce <philip.copeland@oracle.com>
Cc: systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Question on checking the stack
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mll0xbesd.fsf@toenail.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <434E3AA0.9040407@oracle.com>


Bryce <philip.copeland@oracle.com> writes:

> Setting up a probe for a function is great and all but is there a way
> to test how we entered the routine?
> [...]

Just about all the essentials are in there somewhere, just
not in a convenient-to-use form.

> probe kernel.function("generic_make_request") {
>     if (stack(1) == "submit_bio" ) { // where stack(1) was the last
> routine  and stack(2) was 2nd last etc
>          do_test/display
>     }
> }

The tapset/context.stp file would need two new functions such as these:

  caller:string(n:long) - returns the nth substring as if from backtrace()
  addr2symbol:string(n:long) - address-to-symbol lookup, which is exactly
                               one stage of print_stack()

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-13 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-13 10:44 Bryce
2005-10-13 15:46 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2005-10-13 15:58   ` Bryce
2005-10-13 17:01     ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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