Re: increase size of number of possible tracing events

"Frank Ch. Eigler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-trace-users
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi -

> Using ptrace to do this turns out to be absurdly slow, as one might
> expect (I wrote a python script for lldb). If anyone would like to see
> the actual numbers let me know.

In the mean time, you can also try systemtap userspace probes.  These
normally use kernel uprobes, but not the ftrace/perf-event mechanism,
so are not limited in number.  A user can also opt to configure pure
userspace dyninst to instrument.

- FChE
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