varwatch.meta

title: Watch a Variable Changing Value in a Thread
name: varwatch.stp
keywords: _best monitoring
exit: user-controlled
output: trace
scope: system-wide
description: This script places a set of probes (specified by $1), each of which monitors the state of some context $variable expression (specified by $2).  Whenever the value changes, with respect to the active thread, the event is traced.
test_check: stap -wp4 varwatch.stp 'kernel.statement("do_sys_open@fs/open.c:*")' '$$vars'
test_installcheck: stap -w varwatch.stp 'kernel.statement("do_sys_open@fs/open.c:*")' '$$vars' -T 1