Re: [PATCH v2 2.6.38-rc8-tip 0/20] 0: Inode based uprobes

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Mon Mar 14 2011 - 19:47:59 EST


> IOW, I'm trying to get an understanding of how you expect this feature
> will actually become useful to end users - the kernel patch is only
> part of the story.

One user would be systemtap for user tracing as I understand. Systemtap has a
userbase (at least I use it, although not for user tracing)

Right now lots of distros apply ugly patchkits to handle this instead,
which is not good (tm).

-Andi
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