Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:54:53 -0400 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] utrace |
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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:17:12PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Among others, utrace is an enablement layer for systemtap user-space > probing, through another subsequent part that implements a > kprobes-like API for user-space tasks. All this code now exists in at > least prototype form, so if you need to see the bigger picture, look > that way. Other users are anticipated, but first we need to get past > the chicken-and-egg.
As usual nothing of that stuff has any real in-kernel users so the same argument applies here. If it did have real uses it could be merged at the same time. But the current uprobes mess is not a reason to merge utrace.
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