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Re: [...] kprobes [minutes] portion 20060406
- From: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- To: Hien Q Nguyen <nguyhien at us dot ibm dot com>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 17:28:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: [...] kprobes [minutes] portion 20060406
- References: <OF450EB249.F3B0B23E-ON88257148.00738621-88257148.0074730E@us.ibm.com>
Hi -
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 02:14:46PM -0700, Hien Q Nguyen wrote:
> User space probe
> Prasanna had prototype that execute the handler in the user space [...]
Beyond merely dispatching, it is important to consider what such a
handler can do. Would it still be useful if it cannot call into the
kernel-side runtime, if it cannot share variables with kernel-space
probes?
- FChE