From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] utrace
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:54:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080827135453.GA31240@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <y0m7ia3xqev.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com>
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 08:17:12PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Among others, utrace is an enablement layer for systemtap user-space
> probing, through another subsequent part that implements a
> kprobes-like API for user-space tasks. All this code now exists in at
> least prototype form, so if you need to see the bigger picture, look
> that way. Other users are anticipated, but first we need to get past
> the chicken-and-egg.
As usual nothing of that stuff has any real in-kernel users so the same
argument applies here. If it did have real uses it could be merged at
the same time. But the current uprobes mess is not a reason to merge
utrace.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-27 14:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-26 22:01 Roland McGrath
2008-08-26 22:01 ` [PATCH 1/2] utrace core Roland McGrath
2008-08-26 22:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 21:32 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 21:46 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 22:00 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-30 13:45 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 12:11 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 17:01 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 20:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-03 12:11 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-30 15:05 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-09-03 12:58 ` Petr Tesarik
2008-09-03 18:08 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-04 9:03 ` Petr Tesarik
2008-08-26 22:02 ` [PATCH 2/2] utrace: ptrace cooperation Roland McGrath
2008-08-30 13:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 12:10 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-26 22:34 ` [PATCH 0/2] utrace Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-26 22:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-27 0:17 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-08-27 13:54 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2008-08-27 16:40 ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2008-08-30 13:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-09-03 12:09 ` Roland McGrath
2008-09-03 18:37 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-27 15:34 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-29 19:04 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-08-30 13:43 ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-08-27 18:50 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2008-08-27 2:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2008-10-06 20:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
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