Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Sep 2006 11:46:12 -0400 | From | "Frank Ch. Eigler" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers |
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Hi -
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:11:40AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> [...] Why don't we just copy the whole damned function somewhere > else, and make an instrumented copy (as a kernel module)? Then > reroute all the function calls through it [...]
Interesting idea. Are you imagining this instrumented copy being built at kernel compile time (something like building a "-g -O0" parallel)? Or compiled anew from original sources after deployment? Or on-the-fly binary-level rewriting a la SPIN?
> OK, it's not completely trivial to do, but simpler than kprobes [...]
None of the three above are that easy. Do you have an implementation idea?
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