Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:05:12 +0530
From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
        Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
        jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Proposal for ptrace improvements
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> 
> * Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> 
> > I don't think perf has a good way to trace userspace yet.
> 
> uprobes are being worked on (and that comes integrated with perf), and that will 
> give a good mechanism - and it (of course) wont be doing any context-switching.
> 

> Peter might be able to fill us in on the details of the review progress of the 
> uprobes patches.

Just an update on uprobes.
I am currently testing my next version of uprobes and I should be
sending it out for review next monday.


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Thanks and Regards
Srikar
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