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Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: expose current->comm to [ku]probe events

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On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 11:55:34 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> wrote:

> On Wed,  8 Jun 2016 18:38:02 -0700
> Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> wrote:
> 
> > From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>
> > 
> > ftrace is very quick to give up on saving the task command line (see
> > `trace_save_cmdline()`). The workaround for events which really care
> > about the command line is to explicitly assign it as part of the entry.
> > However, this doesn't work for kprobe events, as there's no
> > straightforward way to get access to current->comm. Add a kprobe/uprobe
> > event variable $comm which provides exactly that.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Omar Sandoval <osandov@fb.com>  
> 
> Looks good to me:)
> 
> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
> 
> > ---
> > Alexei pointed out to me that this same functionality can be acheived
> > with BPF and the bpf_get_current_comm() helper, so strictly speaking,
> > this patch isn't necessary. It's still convenient for ad-hoc stuff,
> > though, so I figured I'd throw this up and see what everyone thought.  
> 
> Anyway, I'd like to pull this patch since this still be useful
> in handy way to get comm on ftrace :)
> 

I pulled it.

Thanks!

-- Steve

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Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: expose current->comm to [ku]probe events Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> - 2016-06-17 18:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v3] tracing: expose current->comm to [ku]probe events Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com> - 2016-06-17 20:00 +0200

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