Re: [GIT PULL] tracing/kprobes: Syntax updates, introduce perfprobe

[Ingo Molnar]

* Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Ingo,
> 
> I've tested a little this set and it seems to work well. I can't test 
> the C expression parser (need some libdwarf cross-version 
> compatiblity), but I can create kprobes via low-level parameters, then 
> launch perf record and perf trace successfully. I'll need to update 
> perf trace to handle variables that start with '$' characters though.
> 
> Anyway, it's still unstable but I guess pulling it would help Masami 
> to continue without the need to handle the whole batch.
> 
> Please pull the tracing/kprobes branch that can be found at:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git
> 	tracing/kprobes

Pulled, thanks Frederic.

>  Documentation/trace/kprobetrace.txt |   27 +-
>  kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c         |  160 +++++---
>  tools/perf/Makefile                 |   10 +
>  tools/perf/builtin-probe.c          |  386 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/builtin.h                |    1 +
>  tools/perf/perf.c                   |    1 +
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c      |  690 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h      |   70 ++++
>  8 files changed, 1271 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/builtin-probe.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.c
>  create mode 100644 tools/perf/util/probe-finder.h

Hm, there's no x86 decoder change here - does this lot fixes the 
instruction decoder bug i reported some time ago? That is which keeps 
tracing/kprobes out of tip:master.

	Ingo
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