* Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2011-06-07 11:21:16]: > Em Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 07:08:53PM +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli escreveu: > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 06:32:16PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > > > Enhances perf probe to user space executables and libraries. > > > > Provides very basic support for uprobes. > > > > Nice. Does this require full debug info for symbolic probes, > > > or can it also work with simple symbolc information? > > > It works only with symbol information for now. > > It doesn't (yet) know how to use debuginfo :-) > > 'perf probe' uses perf symbol library, so it really don't have to know > from where symbol resolution information is obtained, only if it needs > things that are _just_ on debuginfo, such as line information, etc. > > But then that is also already supported in 'perf probe'. > > Or is there something else in particular you're thinking? > What Ananth was saying was that perf probe for uprobes still has to take advantage of tracing using line number; Also it is still restricted to showing only register contents and we still have to add support for variables. I know that perf symbol library has support for that just that we have to enable it for uprobes. -- Thanks and Regards Srikar -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>