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SubjectRe: [RFC][Patch 1/4] kprobe fast unregistration
Hi Anil,

Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:17:49PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Hi Christoph and Anil,
>>
>> Thank you for your comments.
>>
>> Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>> Speeding up the unregistration is a very good idea, but this interface
>>> is rather horrible. It's almost a receipe for users to get it wrong.
>> Keshavamurthy, Anil S wrote:
>>> I agree with Christop that the interface is horrible and error prone.
>> OK, I agree. I had chosen a confusable name.
> Keep in mind that the the sequence of unregistering a
> probe should be same irrespecitve of whether user wants
> to unregister a single probe or user want to
> unregister more that one probe, i.e. you can not say
> use this call (unregister_kprobe() ) for unregistering
> a probe which is b.t.w slow and use this set of calls if you
> have more than one kprobes to unregister for faster unregistration.

Would you mean that we should integrate unregistration interface?
Or, would you mean that you prefer "disable_kprobe()" since that
name provides another meaning?

Thanks,

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Masami HIRAMATSU
Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Systems Development Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
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