[MAVERICK][PATCH 0/2] perf probe: Support static and global vars and array elements

[Chase Douglas]

The following patches add support to perf probe so that it can insert
trace events dynamically to probe static and global variables and array
elements. I believe these are highly useful feature additions to perf
probe that will extend our ability to debug running kernels.

The patches have been accepted by the perf maintainer and should be
merged into the 2.6.36 version of Linux.

Note that the patches only touch the tools/perf/ source code, which is
part of the user-space perf program. Neither of these patches touches
kernel source code, so they cannot introduce a kernel regression.

I have tested out the functionality and found it to work in Maverick.

-- Chase