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Re: user-space tracing on Debian... or..?
- From: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo dot lindfors at iki dot fi>
- To: systemtap at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:16:39 +0200
- Subject: Re: user-space tracing on Debian... or..?
- References: <1363106084419-225167.post@n7.nabble.com>
corpaul <c.bezemer@tudelft.nl> writes:
> So for the last days I have been trying to get user-space tracing working on
> Debian.
> The first problem was that utrace is not supported, so we tried to compile a
> custom kernel with uprobes support.
> This worked, however, process probes are not supported.
How exactly did you build your custom kernel? Which kernel version did
you use? I tested this with squeeze two years ago and I think it
worked. The kernel I built is still at
http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/systemtap/linux/
and includes the source (the *.dsc file) that describes exactly the
patches that were applied.