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Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:55:38 +0900
From: Piotr Muszynski <piotru@gmail.com>
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To: prasanna@in.ibm.com
Subject: Re: module for controlling kprobes with /proc
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
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Hello Prasanna,

On Apr 4, 2005 5:35 PM, Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> why /proc ?

Thank you for your remarks. I originally thought of writing a simple
CLI app  to sit over /proc , do basic sanity checks and be simple to
use.

> You can use a combination of SysRq key to enter a kprobe command line prompt.
> Initially you can define a dummy breakpoint for command line prompt and accept
> commands from thereon.
> Later display the list of features add/remove/display breakpoint, backtrace etc.
> Also once you hit a breakpoint you give a command line prompt and user can backtrace/ dump some global memory, dump registers etc.
> 
> Let me know if you need more information.

Yes please, I would be grateful.
TIA

Piotr
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