Kernel analysis with bpftrace

[Kernel] Posted Jul 18, 2019 18:35 UTC (Thu) by bgregg

At the 2019 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM) Brendan Gregg gave a keynote on BPF observability that included a kernel issue he had debugged on Netflix production servers using bpftrace. In this article, he provides a crash course on bpftrace for kernel developers—to help them more easily analyze their code.

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