Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)

From: Avi Kivity
Date: Mon Jan 18 2010 - 07:17:58 EST


On 01/18/2010 02:13 PM, Pekka Enberg wrote:
So how big chunks of the address space are we talking here for uprobes?

That's for the authors to answer, but at a guess, 32 bytes per probe (largest x86 instruction is 15 bytes), so 32 MB will give you a million probes. That's a piece of cake for x86-64, probably harder to justify for i386.

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