Re: [PATCHSET 00/13] tracing/uprobes: Add support for more fetchmethods (v6)

[Oleg Nesterov]

On 11/09, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>
> In that case, I suggest you to use "@+addr" for the relative address,
> since that is an offset, isn't that? :)

Agreed, @+addr looks better!

> BTW, it seems that @addr syntax is hard to use for uprobes, because
> current uprobes is based on a binary, not a process, we cannot specify
> which process is probed when we define it.

Yes, exactly. That is why we suggest that user-space should pass the
ip-relative address (actually offset). This should hopefully solve all
problems with relocations.

Oleg.

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