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From: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 01:36:00 -0000
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Subject: Re: Linux Kernel GDB tracepoint module demo release
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>, Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@gmail.com>
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Thanks Thiago and Michael, both of them have some limit.  I try to
make gdb tracepoint and kernel work together directly. :)

Thanks,
Hui


On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 03:06, Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com> wrote:
> Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:
>>
>> Hi Hui,
>>
>> On Thu, 2010-08-12 at 00:34 +0800, Hui Zhu wrote:
>>>
>>> GDB Tracepoint
>>> (http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Tracepoints.html)
>>> is new feature that make GDB can debug real-time program.
>>> I think this feature is very fit for debug Linux Kernel. =A0So I make a
>>> lkm to make kernel support it. You can get it in
>>> https://code.google.com/p/kgtp/
>>
>> Jim Blandy worked on GDB tracepoint support for the kernel too. I don't
>> know how his work compares to yours, you might be interested in having a
>> look:
>>
>> http://www.red-bean.com/trac/tracepoints/
>>
>
> There's also the LTTng project: http://lttng.org/
>
>
>