Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 3 Jul 2018 21:26:35 +0200 | From | Oleg Nesterov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v5 06/10] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore) |
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On 07/03, Ravi Bangoria wrote: > > Now about adding ref_ctr_offset into uprobe_consumer. Actually, I > didn't want to change the uprobe_consumer definition because it's > already exported and tools like systemtap are using it.
So what? Yes, the out-of-tree modules should be updated, but this doesn't mean we can add the new features.
And, speaking of systemtap, it already has to do build-time checks to verify that uprobe_consumer->ret_handler member exists. So it will need another STAPCONF_INODE_REFCNT and that is all.
Oleg.
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