The Study of Data Collecting Based on Kprobe

Author

Sun, Jian ; Li, Zhan-huai ; Zhang, Xiao ; He, Qin-lu ; Huifeng Wang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Northwestern Polytech. Univ., Xi´´an, China

Volume

2

fYear

2011

fDate

28-30 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

35

Lastpage

38

Abstract

API traces have been used to analyze user behaviour and system software behaviour for years, which lead to advances in file system and storage technologies. We describe the implementation of a lightweight and dynamic API collecting tool which calls Trace_probe in this paper. Trace_probe can trace information of the kernels. It based on kprobe mechanism which is implemented in the 2.6 linux kernel and later versions. This tool is designed to be a mount/unmount module, and its characteristics are simple and lightweight. While it works, it will not affect the normal operations of the users. Further experiments show Trace_probe has some advantags in terms of application limitationen and performance degradation.

Keywords

Linux; application program interfaces; data handling; API collecting tool; Trace_probe; data collection; file system; kernel information; kprobe mechanism; performance degradation; software behaviour; storage technologies; Debugging; File systems; Fuses; Kernel; Linux; Probes; Registers; Kernel Function; Kprobe; Trace;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Intelligence and Design (ISCID), 2011 Fourth International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Hangzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-1085-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCID.2011.110

Filename

6079730