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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com>
Cc: <david_list@boreham.org>, "SystemTap" <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: user mode backtrace
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0my7rbvodt.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C56DB814FAA30B418C75310AC4BB279DCC3D8B@scsmsx413.amr.corp.intel.com>

"Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@intel.com> writes:

> [...]  Deadlock issues aside, there's not really a way for you to
> invoke a process (like pstack) from within a SystemTap script.  [...]

It turns out that quite some time ago, Martin implemented a clone of
the dtrace system() function for systemtap, which enqueues a string
for execution by the userspace staprun daemon.  (There is no
synchronization or data exchange though.)

- FChE

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-20  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-19 22:56 Stone, Joshua I
2006-10-19 23:07 ` David Boreham
2006-10-19 23:24 ` David Boreham
2006-10-20  0:09 ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-20 18:34 Stone, Joshua I
2006-10-20  2:13 Stone, Joshua I
2006-10-20  2:02 Stone, Joshua I
2006-10-19 20:47 David Boreham
2006-10-19 22:33 ` Vara Prasad
2006-10-19 22:51   ` David Boreham
2006-10-20 14:28     ` William Cohen
2006-10-20 14:50       ` David Boreham
2006-10-19 23:50 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-10-20  0:15   ` David Boreham
2006-10-20  0:27     ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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