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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 14, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 07, 2007
Kean G. Kuiper, Round Rock, TX (US);
Frank Eliot Levine, Austin, TX (US);
Enio Manuel Pineda, Austin, TX (US);
Kean G. Kuiper, Round Rock, TX (US);
Frank Eliot Levine, Austin, TX (US);
Enio Manuel Pineda, Austin, TX (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A system and method for Java™ call stack sampling combined with native sampling is presented. A kernel-mode device driver records and stores sampled context information that includes a program counter, a thread identifier, and a process identifier. The sampling thread receives a notification from the kernel-mode device driver, and proceeds to collect call stack information from a Java™ Virtual Machine. In turn, the sampling thread retrieves the sampled context information and harvests symbols corresponding to a loaded module. Once symbols are harvested, the sampling thread combines returned call stack nodes with native function leaf nodes into a unified output tree that provides the relationship between the two different node types. In one embodiment, the sampling thread may generate native function leaf nodes and the unified output tree in a post-processing manner.