Re: increase size of number of possible tracing events

["Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi -

> Using ptrace to do this turns out to be absurdly slow, as one might
> expect (I wrote a python script for lldb). If anyone would like to see
> the actual numbers let me know.

In the mean time, you can also try systemtap userspace probes.  These
normally use kernel uprobes, but not the ftrace/perf-event mechanism,
so are not limited in number.  A user can also opt to configure pure
userspace dyninst to instrument.

- FChE