Re: perf monitoring triggers Was: Re: [tip:perf/core] perf bench:Print both of prefaulted and no prefaulted results by default

[Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo]

Em Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 12:14:33PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra escreveu:
> On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 11:46 -0200, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> > Looks interesting, and also interesting would be to be able to place
> > probes that would wake up it too, for unmodified binaries to have
> > something similar.

> > Other kinds of triggers may be to hook on syscalls and when some
> > expression matches, like connecting to host 1.2.3.4, start monitoring,
> > stop when the socket is closed, i.e. monitor a connection lifetime, etc.
 
> Sounds to me like you want something like a library with self-monitoring
> stuff.

Yeah, that could be a way, an LD_PRELOAD thingy that would intercept
library calls, setup counters, start a monitoring thread, etc.

Along the lines of:

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/acme/libautocork.git;a=blob;f=libautocork.c

This one just intercepts calls, but the __init function could do the
rest.

To make it easier we could move the counter setup we have in record/top
to a library, etc.

- Arnaldo
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