Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] Perf support to SDT markers

From: Mark Wielaard
Date: Tue Sep 03 2013 - 11:13:00 EST


On Tue, 2013-09-03 at 16:21 +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Hemant <hkshaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Here is an overview and a high-level-description:
>
> Thanks, looks like a pretty useful feature - especially if SDT probes are
> already widely present in various server binaries on a typical Linux
> distro (are they?).

They are becoming fairly common, especially now that glibc has adopted
them. And they were designed to be source compatible with DTRACE markers
[*]. So any program that has probes for dtrace can just be recompiled on
with sys/sdt.h to get them.

My Fedora 19 box already has a couple of applications and libraries
installed that support them:

$ stap -l 'process("/usr/*/*").mark("*")' | cut -f2 -d\" | uniq -c
9 /usr/bin/Xorg
9 /usr/bin/Xvfb
4 /usr/bin/c++
4 /usr/bin/cpp
4 /usr/bin/g++
4 /usr/bin/gcc
1 /usr/bin/gcov
4 /usr/bin/gfortran
3 /usr/bin/qemu-ga
75 /usr/bin/qemu-img
75 /usr/bin/qemu-io
75 /usr/bin/qemu-nbd
575 /usr/bin/qemu-system-i386
575 /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
29 /usr/bin/stap
3 /usr/bin/stapdyn
3 /usr/bin/virtfs-proxy-helper
4 /usr/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-c++
4 /usr/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-g++
4 /usr/bin/x86_64-redhat-linux-gcc
13 /usr/lib/ld-2.17.so
1 /usr/lib/libanl-2.17.so
5 /usr/lib/libc-2.17.so
1 /usr/lib/libgcc_s-4.8.1-20130603.so.1
22 /usr/lib/libpthread-2.17.so
1 /usr/lib/librt-2.17.so
3 /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6.0.18
13 /usr/lib64/ld-2.17.so
1 /usr/lib64/libanl-2.17.so
5 /usr/lib64/libc-2.17.so
3 /usr/lib64/libcacard.so.0.0.0
1 /usr/lib64/libgcc_s-4.8.1-20130603.so.1
6 /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.3600.3
11 /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.3600.3
4 /usr/lib64/libm-2.17.so
23 /usr/lib64/libpthread-2.17.so
2 /usr/lib64/libpython2.7.so.1.0
2 /usr/lib64/libpython3.3m.so.1.0
1 /usr/lib64/librt-2.17.so
3 /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6.0.18
15 /usr/lib64/libtcl8.5.so
41 /usr/lib64/libvirt.so.0.1000.5
37 /usr/libexec/libvirt_lxc
12 /usr/sbin/ldconfig
3 /usr/sbin/libvirtd
34 /usr/sbin/prelink
12 /usr/sbin/sln
37 /usr/sbin/virtlockd

[*] http://tromey.com/blog/?p=687

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