From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Cc: oleg@redhat.com, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mingo@kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, anton@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] uprobes: Add exports for module use
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 04:32:27 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130111093227.GA30043@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1357858906-9711-1-git-send-email-jistone@redhat.com>
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 03:01:46PM -0800, Josh Stone wrote:
> The original pull message for uprobes (commit 654443e2) noted:
>
> This tree includes uprobes support in 'perf probe' - but SystemTap
> (and other tools) can take advantage of user probe points as well.
>
> In order to actually be usable in module-based tools like SystemTap, the
> interface needs to be exported. This patch first adds the obvious
> exports for uprobe_register and uprobe_unregister. Then it also adds
> one for task_user_regset_view, which is necessary to get the correct
> state of userspace registers.
Get systemtap into the mainline kernel tree and we can talk.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-11 9:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-10 23:01 [PATCH] uprobes: Add exports for module use Josh Stone
2013-01-11 9:32 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2013-01-11 21:42 ` Josh Stone
2013-01-12 16:38 ` Oleg Nesterov
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