From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 8/14] samples: Uprobes samples
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:47:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100614174757.GD23754@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100614082923.29068.80447.sendpatchset@localhost6.localdomain6>
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 01:59:23PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> samples.patch
>
> From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>
> Uprobes Samples
>
> This provides an example uprobes module in the samples directory.
>
> To run this module run (as root)
> insmod uprobe_example.ko vaddr=<vaddr> pid=<pid>
> Where <vaddr> is the address where we want to place the probe.
> <pid> is the pid of the process we are interested to probe.
What's the point of this sample? It's a sub-set of what the perf
uprobes inteface supports, and writing kernel modules to probe userspace
code is braindead to start with. So if you remove this example of what
people should not do we can also get rid of all the exports.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-06-14 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-14 8:27 [PATCH v5 0/14] Uprobes v5 Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 1/14] X86 instruction analysis: Move Macro W to insn.h Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 6:32 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 2/14] mm: Move replace_page to mm/memory.c Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 4:00 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-15 6:23 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 3/14] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:40 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-21 14:20 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-14 17:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 11:27 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-21 13:59 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 5:44 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 4/14] x86 support for User space breakpoint assistance Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:28 ` [PATCH v5 5/14] Slot allocation for execution out of line (XOL) Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-16 7:06 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 6/14] Uprobes Implementation Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 14:27 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-06-15 11:30 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 7/14] x86 support for Uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:54 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-15 6:23 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-15 11:51 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-15 12:15 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-15 13:15 ` Oleg Nesterov
2010-06-21 14:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 8/14] samples: Uprobes samples Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 17:47 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 9/14] Uprobes documentation Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:29 ` [PATCH v5 10/14] trace: Common code for kprobes/uprobes traceevents Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-15 4:13 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2010-06-21 14:18 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 5:46 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 11/14] trace: uprobes trace_event interface Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-21 14:22 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-06-22 4:15 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-22 6:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 12/14] perf: Dont adjust symbols on name lookup Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 13/14] perf: Re-Add make_absolute_path Srikar Dronamraju
2010-06-14 8:30 ` [PATCH v5 14/14] perf: perf interface for uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
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