Re: [PATCH -tip 0/4 V3] tracing: kprobe-based event tracer

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Apr 01 2009 - 16:15:22 EST


Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> I agreed. Fortunately, Jim Keniston and I wrote an x86 instruction
> decoder :-) which has been made originally for uprobe andd kprobes
> jump-optimizer.
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/utrace-devel/2009-March/msg00031.html

An alternative would be to adapt the x86 interpreter in KVM.
I thought for some time that that one should be available in
a more generic form in a library.

-Andi

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