Re: [RFC][Patch 1/4] kprobe fast unregistration

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:12:22AM -0700, Stone, Joshua I wrote:
> The ability to disable/reenable kprobes would be an interesting
> enhancement.  However, unregister_disabled_kprobes() shouldn't have a
> global effect, because there might be a concurrent kprobes user that
> disabled a probe with the intention of reenabling it later.

enabling/disabling probes sounds like a wonderful additional feature.
I don't think we should expose it as a kernel interface, but rather
through debugfs so I can temporarily disable and then reenable probes
from the shell easily.

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