Re: [2/3 PATCH] Kprobes: User space probes support- readpage hooks

Christoph Hellwig
2006-03-21T11:28:33Z

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:12:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> What does this entire feature *do*? Why does Linux need it?

it's what dtrace does. thus the marketing departments at ibm and redhat
decided to copy the features 1:1 instead of thinking what problem they
want to solve.