Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757660Ab0AOOGv (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:06:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757407Ab0AOOGv (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:06:51 -0500 Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:59565 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756643Ab0AOOGu (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:06:50 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/7] Uprobes Implementation From: Peter Zijlstra To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" Cc: Jim Keniston , Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo , Frederic Weisbecker , LKML , Mark Wielaard , utrace-devel In-Reply-To: <20100115140042.GR4822@redhat.com> References: <20100111122553.22050.46895.sendpatchset@srikar.in.ibm.com> <1263467394.4244.291.camel@laptop> <1263509380.4875.35.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1263546632.4244.352.camel@laptop> <1263548124.4244.358.camel@laptop> <20100115131037.GP4822@redhat.com> <1263561930.4244.417.camel@laptop> <20100115133825.GQ4822@redhat.com> <1263563276.4244.426.camel@laptop> <20100115140042.GR4822@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:06:43 +0100 Message-ID: <1263564403.4244.430.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 On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 09:00 -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote: > Well, I'm not in a position to argue line by line about the necessity > or the cost of utrace low level guts, but this may represent the most > practical engineering balance between functionality / modularity / > undesirably intrusive modifications. How intrusive and non-modular is installing a DIE_INT3 notifier? -- 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/