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Re: 4/20/05 meeting - minutes from morning session

From: John Levon <levon at movementarian dot org>
To: "Chen, Brad" <brad dot chen at intel dot com>
Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:28:45 +0100
Subject: Re: 4/20/05 meeting - minutes from morning session
References: <75EC4D5486CAC247B84AAAA6F96AA558049F58B0@orsmsx402.amr.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 04:04:56PM -0700, Chen, Brad wrote:

> - backtraces
> 	- backtrace kernel and user space works today
> 	- issue: don't want to do symbolic lookups in user space
> 		- might use dcookies; oprofile style

Please do: one of the most unfortunate  things with dtrace is that if
the process goes away, all you get is a hex backtrace. There's no really
good reason for this in Linux, since you can just grab the relevant
dcookies and decode at your leisure.

regards
john

References:
- 4/20/05 meeting - minutes from morning session
  - From: Chen, Brad

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