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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Conoscenza Silente <abruzzoforteegentile@gmail.com>
Cc: systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: probing user space function on Ubuntu
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:59:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mr5b7snjt.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=1th_3PzNLWMtJhqa=xKzA_5wfQr+Hm8Gr6gYq@mail.gmail.com> (Conoscenza Silente's message of "Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:49:18 +0000")


Hi -

abruzzoforteegentile wrote:

> I am completely new to systemtap.

Welcome!

> I work with Ubuntu 10.10
> I would like to probe functions in my application so user-space probing.
> " - semantic error: process probes not available without kernel
> CONFIG_UTRACE while [...]

Right.

> Do you know how to get it and IF it is possible to have that in Ubuntu?
> Was anyone successful?

Yes, several people have built utrace-patched ubuntu kernels in the
past, but I believe we lack a recipe in our wiki page for that.
Here's a PPA though: https://launchpad.net/~speijnik/+archive/utrace-kernel
(We'd love to have ubuntu kernel maintainers consider carrying the patch.)

- FChE

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-16 20:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <AANLkTinT+h1fj3k2s_jfZu_xqpuCUWj4fDZfTDKdG1Vb@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-16 19:49 ` Conoscenza Silente
2011-02-16 20:54   ` Adrien Kunysz
2011-02-16 20:59   ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2011-02-17  0:16     ` Conoscenza Silente
2011-02-17  1:08       ` Fwd: systemtap " Frank Ch. Eigler
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTikdZQMs2BQ+mj=ErEe8526OqnLyeKVh+1v-avvb@mail.gmail.com>
2011-02-19  1:59           ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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