Survey and Analysis of Kernel and Userspace Tracers on Linux: Design, Implementation, and Overhead

As applications and operating systems are becoming more complex, the last decade has seen the rise of many tracing tools all across the software stack. This article presents a hands-on comparison of modern tracers on Linux systems, both in user space and kernel space. The authors implement microbenc...

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Published in:ACM computing surveys 2019-03, Vol.51 (2), p.1-33
Main Authors: Gebai, Mohamad, Dagenais, Michel R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Comparative analysis
Computer science
Linux
Operating systems
Software
Studies
Tracers
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