Re: [PATCH 0/2] utrace

[Christoph Hellwig]

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.

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