From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: "Masami Hiramatsu (Google)" <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>,
linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about config UPROBES and UPROBE_EVENTS
Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 08:32:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20241001083244.486589b9@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240930113231.6c87108d@gandalf.local.home>
On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:32:31 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> wrote:
> > uprobe_register/unregister APIs are exposed to the kernel modules,
> > since systemtap had been introduced this feature.
> >
>
> OK, but since they have always been visible, I would just make
> CONFIG_UPROBES a normal option and CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENTS select it if it
> gets selected, and not depend on it.
Thinking about this more, since systemtap is out of tree, and if that's the
only user of uprobes, I don't think it should be exposed as a prompt.
If you want uprobes for systemtap, you must also have uprobe events.
-- Steve
prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-10-01 12:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-09-11 6:40 Question about config UPROBES and UPROBE_EVENTS Tiezhu Yang
2024-09-11 13:43 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-09-29 23:15 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2024-09-30 1:33 ` Tiezhu Yang
2024-09-30 14:06 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-09-30 15:28 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2024-09-30 15:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-09-30 15:43 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2024-10-01 6:30 ` Tiezhu Yang
2024-10-01 12:30 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-10-01 12:33 ` Steven Rostedt
2024-10-01 12:32 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
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