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From: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
To: piotr@slc01.tohoku.grp.ricoh.co.jp, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Subject: Re: module for controlling kprobes with /proc
Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 14:05:07 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050404083507.GG1715@in.ibm.com> (raw)

Hi Piotr,

Good way to make kprobes useful, but I have some comments.

>I have programmed a universal module to register/remove kprobes handlers
>by interacting with /proc with simple commands.
>

why /proc ?

You can use a combination of SysRq key to enter a kprobe command line prompt.
Initially you can define a dummy breakpoint for command line prompt and accept
commands from thereon.
Later display the list of features add/remove/display breakpoint, backtrace etc.
Also once you hit a breakpoint you give a command line prompt and user can backtrace/ dump some global memory, dump registers etc.

Let me know if you need more information.

Thanks
Prasanna

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Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Linux Technology Center
India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore
Ph: 91-80-25044636
<prasanna@in.ibm.com>

             reply	other threads:[~2005-04-04  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-04-04  8:35 Prasanna S Panchamukhi [this message]
2005-04-04  9:55 ` module for controlling kprobes with /proc Piotr Muszynski
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2005-04-04  9:40 Piotr Muszynski
2005-03-31 11:54 Piotr Muszynski

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