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Re: Systemtap with kernel markers?
Hi -
On Fri, Oct 03, 2008 at 09:27:22AM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
> [...]
> Those markers aren't in Module.markers because the kernel subsystems
> in question (ext4 and jbd2) weren't built as markers, but directly
> linked into the kernel.
The Module.markers file is intended to contain markers both from
modules and vmlinux. Perhaps something broke this recently.
> Is there a way to make stap support the use of markers compiled into
> the kernel and not in kernel modules?
Certainly. The markers kernel API is not even module-aware, so
systemtap can't know. All it needs is a list of them.
- FChE