Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756460AbYH0OHL (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 10:07:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758106AbYH0NzG (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:55:06 -0400 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:33009 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757576AbYH0NzF (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:55:05 -0400 Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:54:53 -0400 From: Christoph Hellwig To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Alexey Dobriyan , Roland McGrath , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] utrace Message-ID: <20080827135453.GA31240@infradead.org> References: <20080826220102.89635154233@magilla.localdomain> <20080826223402.GB27724@x200.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by bombadil.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 905 Lines: 18 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. -- 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/