Using SystemTap to Trace Custom Kernel Modules

Using SystemTap to Trace Custom Kernel Modules

One Background After reading the article “Dynamic Tracing Technology Discussion” (https://blog.openresty.com.cn/cn/dynamic-tracing/), I thought about using SystemTap to trace my own developed kernel module. However, the official documentation of SystemTap (https://sourceware.org/systemtap/documentation.html) only gives examples of tracing kernel modules by using drivers from the kernel source tree, for example: probe module(“ext3”).function(“*”) { }, and indeed, the verification … Read more