On 04/17/2018 10:02 AM, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
> Userspace Statically Defined Tracepoints[1] are dtrace style markers
> inside userspace applications. Applications like PostgreSQL, MySQL,
> Pthread, Perl, Python, Java, Ruby, Node.js, libvirt, QEMU, glib etc
> have these markers embedded in them. These markers are added by developer
> at important places in the code. Each marker source expands to a single
> nop instruction in the compiled code but there may be additional
> overhead for computing the marker arguments which expands to couple of
> instructions. In case the overhead is more, execution of it can be
> omitted by runtime if() condition when no one is tracing on the marker:
>
> if (reference_counter > 0) {
> Execute marker instructions;
> }
>
> Default value of reference counter is 0. Tracer has to increment the
> reference counter before tracing on a marker and decrement it when
> done with the tracing.
Hi Oleg, Masami,
Can you please review this :) ?
Thanks.
