Re: kernelshark plugins and ftrace array fields

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On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 17:34 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> On 09/02/2010 05:25 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 15:19 +0300, Avi Kivity wrote:
> >> I'd like to add enhance kvm_emulate_insn display in kernelshark to
> >> show the disassembly of the instruction being emulated.  However,
> >> pevent_get_field_val() doesn't support arrays (the instruction is
> >> provided in a 15-byte array).
> >>
> >> Can you add support for arrays in the kernelshark API?  With that, it
> >> looks like adding disassembly output to the kvm plugin should be quite
> >> simple.
> >>
> > Sure, I could add a pevent_get_field_array() or something. Could you
> > tell me the event and give me an example of what you want to do.
> 
> plugin_kvm.c:
> 
> kvm_emulate_insn_handler()
> {
>     fetch insn array and len field
>     feed into disassembler
>     trace_seq_printf() the disassembled instruction
> }

I don't have that tracepoint in any of my kernels. Is this new? I guess
if I see the TRACE_EVENT() I could emulate something and work with it.

-- Steve



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