Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:55 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)
> 
> User space breakpointing Infrastructure provides kernel subsystems
> with architecture independent interface to establish breakpoints in
> user applications. This patch provides core implementation of ubp and
> also wrappers for architecture dependent methods.

So if this is the basic infrastructure to set userspace breakpoints,
then why not call this uprobe?

> UBP currently supports both single stepping inline and execution out
> of line strategies. Two different probepoints in the same process can
> have two different strategies.

maybe explain wth these are?

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