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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 06:29:27PM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> So, that could be a bug.
> 
> Anyway, at least kprobes has some sample modules under samples/kprobes/.
> Aren't they in-tree consumers of kprobes?

We have quite a few kprobes users in the kernel, just no really useful
modular ones.  We have a couple of useful users of jprobes, which are
the more useful kprobes variants in modules.  All of them might better
be converted to trace events, but those weren't around when they were
added.

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