Hi,
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 01:14:34AM -0400, Andrei Barbu wrote:
> SystemTap itself doesn't get to sit in the Linux kernel. Linux exposes
> an in-kernel API called kprobes. That allows you to do something like
> (conceptually, not real code) set_entry_probe("some_function", myfun),
> that will c
> I don't get this: Why implement module loading just for this? Can't
> SystemTap be just statically linked in gnumach? Or are the actual test
> functions compiled and loaded as modules in SystemTap?...
>
SystemTap itself doesn't get to sit in the Linux kernel. Linux exposes
an in-kernel API calle
Hi again,
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:20:12PM -0400, Andrei Barbu wrote:
> 2 This one is ugly, and I'd rather not do it. It involves adding
> module loading support to do the same thing that SystemTap does on
> Linux. Compile code, add a prelude so that it becomes a regular
> module, load it in an
Hello,
Andrei Barbu, le Mon 26 May 2008 17:57:04 -0400, a écrit :
> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Samuel Thibault
> > BTW, I'm not sure to understand: what does RW means? Being able to
> > tinker with kernel parameters?
> >
>
> Yup, you could potentially do so in both dtrace and systemtap;
>
Hi,
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 04:20:12PM -0400, Andrei Barbu wrote:
> I've been thinking about all of the various ways to get either Dtrace
> or SystemTap working. I've come up with 4 options:
> [...] On the downside this is inherently R/O, although that does
> increase security significantly.
I
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:27 PM, Samuel Thibault
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED], le Mon 26 May 2008 21:25:33 +0200, a écrit :
>> Maybe you actually mean that RW increases the risk of crashing?...
>> (Well, what fun would there be in system development, without the
>> prospect of reg
[EMAIL PROTECTED], le Mon 26 May 2008 21:25:33 +0200, a écrit :
> Maybe you actually mean that RW increases the risk of crashing?...
> (Well, what fun would there be in system development, without the
> prospect of regular crashes? ;-) )
BTW, I'm not sure to understand: what does RW means? Being
