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systemtap is another utility in this vein that's worth checking out

http://sourceware.org/systemtap/



I already checked it out and the timer probes don't work at all.

On one system, I couldn't even invoke kernel functions.

On another system, the kernel panicked as soon as I executed `stap -e ...`.

Basically unusable, at this point.

I hope it improves because developers on linux could really benefit from dynamic tracing.




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