Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 18 May 2018 20:46:32 +0200 | From | Ralph Böhme <> | Subject | Re: [PATCHv2][SMB3] Add kernel trace support |
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On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 09:36:36PM -0500, Steve French via samba-technical wrote: > Patch updated with additional tracepoint locations and some formatting > improvements. There are some obvious additional tracepoints that could > be added, but this should be a reasonable group to start with. > > From edc02d6f9dc24963d510c7ef59067428d3b082d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com> > Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 21:16:55 -0500 > Subject: [PATCH] smb3: Add ftrace tracepoints for improved SMB3 debugging > > Although dmesg logs and wireshark network traces can be > helpful, being able to dynamically enable/disable tracepoints > (in this case via the kernel ftrace mechanism) can also be > helpful in more quickly debugging problems, and more > selectively tracing the events related to the bug report. > > This patch adds 12 ftrace tracepoints to cifs.ko for SMB3 events > in some obvious locations. Subsequent patches will add more > as needed. > > Example use: > trace-cmd record -e cifs > <run test case> > trace-cmd show
pardon my ignorance, but are these tracepoints usable with other tracing frameworks like Systemtap?
Last time I checked, Systemtap looked like *the* tool. Is there a generic trace point infrastructure that tracing tools can consume, so we're not tied to ftrace?
Thanks! -slow
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