Patch: Adding tapset and example to make use of perl probe points

Marcela Mašláňová mmaslano at redhat.com
Wed Jan 26 15:34:05 UTC 2011


On 01/25/2011 10:55 PM, Lukas Berk wrote:
> This patch adds a systemtap tapset and example to be installed with 
> perl-devel.  The benefit of this is being able to make use of the 
> recently enabled probe points.  You are able to probe subroutine 
> call/return, the file the subroutine was defined in, and line number.
> 
> These new files are only installed if the user has the perl-devel
> installed.  Regular perl-5.12.3 users will not be effected by this change.
> 
> This patch was tested on Fedora 14 i386 and x86_64 as well as Fedora
> Rawhide i386 and x86_64.  No regressions were found.  The changes were
> tested by first upgrading perl-5.12.3-148 to perl-5.12.3-149 and
> checking that no new files were installed.  Once this had been ensured,
> perl-devel-5.12.3-149 was installed, first checking that the files had
> been placed in their correct locations, and subsequently that the tapset
> and example both worked as expected.
> 
> Lukas Berk
Hello,
could you please sent your patch (without specfile part) to upstream?
The best way will be sent bug report with this patch. It would be nice
if they accept it in 5.13 branch.
Best regards,
Marcela

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Marcela Mašláňová
BaseOS team Brno



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