Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751306AbWEIWfi (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 18:35:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751309AbWEIWfi (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 18:35:38 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:45204 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751306AbWEIWfh (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 18:35:37 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 23:35:29 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Adrian Bunk , Christoph Hellwig , Richard J Moore , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Prasanna S Panchamukhi , suparna@in.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes Message-ID: <20060509223529.GB14753@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , "Frank Ch. Eigler" , Adrian Bunk , Richard J Moore , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Prasanna S Panchamukhi , suparna@in.ibm.com References: <20060509093614.GB26953@infradead.org> <20060509151857.GB16332@infradead.org> <20060509204052.GN3570@stusta.de> <20060509205835.GD13413@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060509205835.GD13413@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 789 Lines: 20 On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:58:35PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Hi - > > On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:40:52PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > > It is reasonable to want to see code that exercises this function. > > > Until systemtap does, hand-written examples can surely be provided. > > > > It's not about examples, it's about in-kernel users. > > Just as for kprobes, this facility is for dynamically generated > kernel-resident code. kprobes is not for "dynamically generated kernel-resident code". That's just what you abuse it for. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/