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Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:37:09 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>,
       Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
       Jiaying Zhang <jiayingz@google.com>, Martin Bligh <mbligh@google.com>,
       Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>, Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Kprobes/Kretprobes perf support
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On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 05:27:16PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 21:13 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > 
> >> Ingo, Peter do you have an idea on how we could do that?
> > 
> > Wouldn't it be easiest to use ftrace to create dynamic tracepoints in
> > the ftrace way such that they become available in
> > debugfs://tracing/events/kprobes/*/ and then have them interfaced the
> > same way as all other tracepoints?
> 
> Yes, almost same. One big difference is that they are sharing
> same event-id(TRACE_KPROBE and TRACE_KRETPROBE).
> But I can make each kprobe events to have different ids, if you need.
> 
> Thank you,

Yeah that would be better. That's also what Jason did with the syscall events.