Tracking Down a Regression in Mesa 3D

48 points by vkoskiv


abnercoimbre

I was about to ask if the author was inspired by the recent "My First Linux Contribution." Then when I got to the end I realized it's the same person :)

I need to fill up my RSS feed with this genre of blog posts. They're such a treat. Of course I'll add you as my first feed.

> I might do an entire post about bpftrace(8) at some point

Please do!

donpdonp

fantastic 'edutainment' in this post. it provides an example of a valuable workflow for finding a difficult problem.

0x2ba22e11

This is absolutely worth reading just for the bit about how to use bpftrace alone. <3

evmar

This is a really great post, I learned a lot.

coxley

I've used bpftrace and custom eBPF programs for work, but it never occurred to me to use it for driver debugging in Arch. This is amazing!