From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760008AbXGPVMj (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:12:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755014AbXGPVMa (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:12:30 -0400 Received: from mx3.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.1.138]:53535 "EHLO mx3.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751706AbXGPVM3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:12:29 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:12:22 +0200 From: Ingo Molnar To: linux@bohmer.net Cc: Arjan van de Ven , LKML , RT-Users , mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Subject: Re: [Question] Hooks for scheduler tracing (CFS) Message-ID: <20070716211222.GA18661@elte.hu> References: <3efb10970707161246se06ab22i32872cfe6fa4f2f6@mail.gmail.com> <1184615557.2698.3.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> <3efb10970707161317h72b30aabq208150b2abde8e5e@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3efb10970707161317h72b30aabq208150b2abde8e5e@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.0 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 -1.0 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Remy Bohmer wrote: > Hello Arjan, > > Thanks for this suggestion. (please dont top-post, ever. See: www.zipworld.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/top-posting.txt) > But I looked at Systemtap before, and as I remember, it is very > flexible, but it only traces function calls. (or am I missing > something?) systemtap it should be able to trace variables as well. (as long as those variables are not eliminated by gcc) Ingo