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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Anton Arapov <anton@redhat.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] uprobes: pre-filtering
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:06:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130124170612.GA14823@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130124154159.GB32071@gmail.com>

On 01/24, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> > Unfortunately, currently there is no in-kernel user of
> > pre-filtering.
> >
> > I'll try to implement the pid-base filtering at least for
> > tracing/uprobe_events, but this needs a time. Not only I am
> > not familiar with this code, I am not sure how this interface
> > should actually look. And I agree, perf should be able to use
> > it somehow, perhaps at least to allow to probe a single
> > task/mm.
>
> Would be nice to get something minimal/simple going, so that it
> can be tested, etc.

Heh, I understand.

I do not see anything simple to implement... I'll try to think.
Srikar, do you have any idea?

All I can say right now: I'll send you the patches when I have them ;)
Can't promise this will be soon.

_Perhaps_, as a first step, we can simply change create_trace_uprobe()
so that it would be possible to specify list-of-pids at creation time...
Not sure this actually makes sense.

Oleg.


  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-24 17:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-13 18:59 [GIT PULL] uprobes: pre-filtering Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-24 12:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-24 12:28   ` Anton Arapov
2013-01-24 12:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-24 15:40   ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-24 15:41     ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-24 17:06       ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-01-25  6:46         ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-01-25  7:54           ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-25 16:17             ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-25 18:46               ` Ingo Molnar
2013-01-25 19:34                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-28 12:19               ` Srikar Dronamraju
2013-01-28 16:04                 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-01-25 11:23           ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-01-24 17:05     ` Josh Stone
2013-01-24 17:23       ` Oleg Nesterov

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