Re: [PATCH v9 3.2 7/9] tracing: uprobes trace_event interface

[Ingo Molnar]

Have you tried to use 'perf probe' to achieve any useful 
instrumentation on a real app?

I just tried out the 'glibc:free' usecase and it's barely 
usable.

Firstly, the recording very frequently produces overruns:

 $ perf record -e probe_libc:free -aR sleep 1
 [ perf record: Woken up 169 times to write data ]
 [ perf record: Captured and wrote 89.674 MB perf.data (~3917919 samples) ]
 Warning:Processed 1349133 events and lost 1 chunks!

Using -m 4096 made it work better.

Adding -g for call-graph profiling caused 'perf report' to lock 
up:

  perf record -m 4096 -e probe_libc:free -agR sleep 1
  perf report
  [ loops forever ]

I've sent a testcase to Arnaldo separately. Note that perf 
report --stdio appears to work.

Regular '-e cycles -g' works fine, so this is a uprobes specific 
bug.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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