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Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 19:08:53 +0530
From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 20/22] 20: perf: perf interface for
	uprobes
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To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 09:30:39AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 06:32:16PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > 
> > Enhances perf probe to user space executables and libraries.
> > Provides very basic support for uprobes.
> 
> Nice.  Does this require full debug info for symbolic probes,
> or can it also work with simple symbolc information?

It works only with symbol information for now.
It doesn't (yet) know how to use debuginfo :-)

Ananth

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