Re: [PATCH 00/18] [ANNOUNCE] Dynamically created function based events

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Feb 05 2018 - 10:03:14 EST


On Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:25:20 +0900
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm interested in this. From my understanding, it's basically
> function tracing + filter + custom argument info, right?
>
> Supporting arguments with complex type could be error-prone.
> We need to prevent malfunctions by invalid inputs.

All reads are done with probe_kernel_read(). If it faults (at any
stage), it simply returns "0".

-- Steve