Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Dec 2016 09:00:52 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing/kprobes: add a helper method to return number of probe hits |
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On Fri, 9 Dec 2016 13:25:51 +0100 Marcin Nowakowski <marcin.nowakowski@imgtec.com> wrote:
> The number of probe hits is stored in a percpu variable and therefore > can't be read directly. Add a helper method trace_kprobe_nhit() that > performs the required calculation.
Can you please add the "why?" to this change log. Who needs this functionality, and why?
-- Steve
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