On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 12:07:09PM +0200, Matthias Schwarzott wrote: > Am 11.06.24 um 23:26 schrieb Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: > > Hi, > > The v1.27 release of pahole and its friends is out, supporting > > parallel reproducible builds and encoding kernel kfuncs in BTF, allowing > > tools such as bpftrace to enumerate the available kfuncs and obtain its > > function signatures and return types. > > > > Regarding packaging of pahole: > What is the state of the contained ostra-cg? I need to make a decision on that, it is used to produce things like: http://vger.kernel.org/~acme/ostra/callgraphs/sock/0xf61bf500/ As documented in: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/pahole/pahole.git/tree/README.ctracer But yes, it needs to get retested after all these years to see how difficult it would be to try and get it back working. - Arnaldo > I have no clue what it is and how to use it. Is there still a use-case for > it? > > Starting it without arguments only shows the usage string. > Running it with two dummy arguments: > $ ostra-cg x y > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/bin/ostra-cg", line 404, in <module> > class_def = ostra.class_definition(class_def_file = "%s.fields" % > traced_class, > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > File "/usr/share/dwarves/runtime/python/ostra.py", line 154, in __init__ > f = file(class_def_file) > ^^^^ > NameError: name 'file' is not defined. Did you mean: 'field'? > > According to > https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32131230/python-file-function the > function file() does not exist in python3. > > This part could be fixed by replacing it with open() but I wonder if this is > worth it. > > As nobody has complained about it being broken: > Should ostra just be removed? > > Regards > Matthias
