oops .. typo

Corey J Ashford/Beaverton/i...@ibmus wrote on 07/22/2009 11:29:22 AM:

> I know for a fact that it's possible to ptrace attach to threads 
(tasks). 
> We have a tool which relies on that + perfmon2 for per-thread 
performance 
> monitoring.
> 
> If you are really curious, you could start digging into the kernel code 
to 
> figure out where that "operation not permitted" error is coming from, 
and 
> perhaps that could lead to a clue as to what is going on.
> 
> On the other hand, Stephane the 2.6.30 perfmon2 won't require ptrace, so
                             ^ said 
> if you can wait, that would be a better solution.
> 
> - Corey
> 
> Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com> wrote on 07/22/2009 07:57:32 AM:
> 
> > Hi,
> > Yes the line 136 prints the application thread id correctly. I also 
> > don't know what could be the problem. May be ptrace does not allow 
> > threadID as parameter. When will the version 2.6.30 be available?
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Tanima.
> > 
> > From: Corey J Ashford <cjash...@us.ibm.com>
> > To: Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com>
> > Cc: Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Perfmon <perfmon2-
> > de...@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2009 12:12:15 AM
> > Subject: Re: [perfmon2] About per-thread monitoring
> 
> > Hi Tanima,
> > 
> > Does the " fprintf(stdout, "apptid %d gettid(): %d \n",apptid, 
> > gettid());" at line 136 print correct looking task ids? If the 
> > apptid is zero, maybe you need to add a "volatile" keyword added to 
> > the declaration of apptid, since it is written in one thread, and 
> > accessed in another.
> > 
> > If the apptid is ok looking, and you're getting operation not 
> > permitted, that's seems very odd. Ptrace ought to be able to attach 
> > to threads you have created.
> > 
> > Otherwise, the code looks ok to me. Maybe Stephane has some ideas.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > - Corey
> > 
> > Corey Ashford
> > Software Engineer
> > IBM Linux Technology Center, Linux Toolchain
> > Beaverton, OR 
> > 503-578-3507 
> > cjash...@us.ibm.com
> > 
> > 
> > Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com> wrote on 07/20/2009 12:37:55 PM:
> > 
> > > Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com> 
> > > 07/20/2009 12:37 PM
> > > 
> > > To
> > > 
> > > Corey J Ashford/Beaverton/i...@ibmus
> > > 
> > > cc
> > > 
> > > Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Perfmon <perfmon2-
> > > de...@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > 
> > > Subject
> > > 
> > > Re: [perfmon2] About per-thread monitoring
> > > 
> > > Hi,
> > > I am attaching the code.
> > > Thank you very much. 
> > > Tanima.
> > > 
> > > From: Corey J Ashford <cjash...@us.ibm.com>
> > > To: Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com>
> > > Cc: Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>; Perfmon <perfmon2-
> > > de...@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > Sent: Saturday, July 18, 2009 10:26:11 PM
> > > Subject: Re: [perfmon2] About per-thread monitoring
> > 
> > > Can you post the code where you are doing the fork/exec of the app, 
> > > and following ptrace call? Maybe we can spot the problem easier that
> > > way, because I'm a little confused about the terminology 
> > > "appThread". If appThread is a pthread id, that would be the reason 
> > > that ptrace is not working... it takes task ids, rather than pthread 

> ids.
> > > 
> > > - Corey
> > > 
> > > Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com> wrote on 07/18/2009 03:55:02 PM:
> > > 
> > > > Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com> 
> > > > 07/18/2009 03:55 PM
> > > > 
> > > > To
> > > > 
> > > > Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > > 
> > > > cc
> > > > 
> > > > Perfmon <perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > > 
> > > > Subject
> > > > 
> > > > Re: [perfmon2] About per-thread monitoring
> > > > 
> > > > Hi,
> > > > Yes, I have studied that example, and wrote similar code, but for 
> > > > the appThread. But it shows me the same error message for ptrace() 

> > > > while attaching the task. I have given the appThread ID instead of 

> > > > the process ID, and it shows the message:
> > > > 
> > > > "cannot attach to threadID, operation is not permitted"
> > > > 
> > > > Can you help?
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Tanima.
> > > > 
> > > > From: Corey Ashford <cjash...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > > > To: Tanima Dey <dey_tr...@yahoo.com>
> > > > Cc: Perfmon <perfmon2-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
> > > > Sent: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:20:09 PM
> > > > Subject: Re: [perfmon2] About per-thread monitoring
> > > > 
> > > > On 07/16/2009 04:33 PM, Tanima Dey wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for the reply.
> > > > >
> > > > > It is mentioned in the manual that the thread to which the 
context 
> is
> > > > > attached is the monitored thread, in my case then it is the 
> application
> > > > > thread to which the context should be loaded, right? If it is 
so, 
> I am
> > > > > initializing and loading the context in the appThread, and 
trying 
> to
> > > > > read the counters value in the monitor thread. So I have used 
> ptrace()
> > > > > to stop the appThread in the monitor thread and trying to read 
the
> > > > > counters, but it is showing the error message: Cannot attach: 
> Operation
> > > > > not permitted. Also I tried to read by saving the file 
descriptor
> > > > > variable, it is also not working.
> > > > >
> > > > > Must the per-thread monitoring always be self-monitoring? 
> Otherwise, I
> > > > > think it will always be the case that the monitoring thread wont 

> have
> > > > > any access to PMU state initialized by the appThread.
> > > > >
> > > > > What wrong I am doing here?Do you have any examples for 
perthread
> > > > > monitoring using threads?
> > > > >
> > > > 
> > > > You can monitor from the same thread or from another thread, or 
from 
> 
> > > > another thread in a different process.
> > > > 
> > > > Have you looked at libpfm/examples_v2.x/task_attach.c ?
> > > > 
> > > > It is an example of monitoring events in another task (i.e. 
process 
> or 
> > > > thread).
> > > > 
> > > > - Corey
> > > > 
> > > 
> > 
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