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DateTue, 21 Mar 2006 11:39:12 +0000
FromChristoph Hellwig <>
SubjectRe: [0/3] Kprobes: User space probes support
On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 11:37:45AM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote:
> This patch set provides the basic infrastructure for user-space probes
> based on IBM's Dprobes. Similar to kprobes, user-space probes uses the
> breakpoint mechanism to insert probes. User has to write a kernel module
> to insert probes in the executable/library and specify the handlers in
> the kernel module.

Doing this from kernelspace is wrong.  It should be done from userspace,
best using a systemcall. Of couse the handlers can't work as-is you'd
need to redo that to work similarlt to ptrace - which will hopefully
allow some code reuse aswell.


And please - independent of the best api in this case - please don't ever
submit large amounts of code again that don't have any in-tree user.
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