Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756473Ab0ANLKH (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:10:07 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756436Ab0ANLKE (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:10:04 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:57642 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756403Ab0ANLKC (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 06:10:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/7] Uprobes Implementation From: Peter Zijlstra To: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , utrace-devel , Mark Wielaard , Frederic Weisbecker , Masami Hiramatsu , Maneesh Soni , Jim Keniston , LKML In-Reply-To: <20100111122553.22050.46895.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> References: <20100111122521.22050.3654.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> <20100111122553.22050.46895.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:09:54 +0100 Message-ID: <1263467394.4244.291.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 21 On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:55 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > Uprobes Infrastructure enables user to dynamically establish > probepoints in user applications and collect information by executing > a handler functions when the probepoints are hit. > Please refer Documentation/uprobes.txt for more details. > > This patch provides the core implementation of uprobes. > This patch builds on utrace infrastructure. > > You need to follow this up with the uprobes patch for your > architecture. So all this is basically some glue between what you call ubp (the real userspace breakpoint stuff) and utrace? Or does it do more? -- 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/