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Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> wrote: > > The basic idea is to insert probes on user applications which may or > may not be in memory, at the time of probe insertion. umm yes, but what for? What does this entire feature *do*? Why does Linux need it? OK, so it allows kernel modules to set breakpoints (via debug traps) into user code. But why do we want to be able to do that? What are the use-cases? This may sound like boringly obvious stuff to you, but without a complete problem statement from the designers, how are we to evaluate their proposed solution? - 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/ | ||||||||||||
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