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Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 08:54:37 +0100
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] uprobes: pre-filtering
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* Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> The other alternative is to extend the current abi and pass 
> the prefilter option. Should we extend the abi for userspace 
> tracing is obviously debatable.

That's the obvious path to go - why add something to the kernel 
if user-space cannot make use of it?

Thanks,

	Ingo