Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:50:07 +0530 | From | Srikar Dronamraju <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/7] Uprobes Implementation |
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> > > > Furthermore it requires stopping and resuming tasks and nonsense like > > > that, that's unwanted in many cases, just run stuff from the trap site > > > and you're done. > > > > I don't know what you mean exactly. A trap already stopped task. > > utrace merely allows various clients to inspect/manipulate the state > > of the task at that moment. It does not add any context switches or > > spurious stop/resumue operations. > > Srikar seemed to suggest it needed stop/resume. >
If process traps, We dont need to stop/resume other threads. uprobes needs threads to quiesce when inserting/deleting the breakpoint.
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