Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757784Ab0ANWuS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:50:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757228Ab0ANWuQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:50:16 -0500 Received: from e33.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.151]:42956 "EHLO e33.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757088Ab0ANWuN (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:50:13 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/7] Uprobes Implementation From: Jim Keniston To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju , Ingo Molnar , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , utrace-devel , Mark Wielaard , Frederic Weisbecker , Masami Hiramatsu , Maneesh Soni , LKML In-Reply-To: <1263467394.4244.291.camel@laptop> References: <20100111122521.22050.3654.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> <20100111122553.22050.46895.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> <1263467394.4244.291.camel@laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:49:40 -0800 Message-Id: <1263509380.4875.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-8.el5_2.3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1065 Lines: 30 On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:09 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > 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? > My reply in http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.1/02483.html addresses this. Jim -- 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/