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

[Leann Ogasawara]

Applied to Maverick linux master.

Thanks,
Leann

On Thu, 2010-07-15 at 21:44 -0400, Chase Douglas wrote:
> 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
>