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Re: Systemtap snap:b6371390 test on kernel 2.6.30-rc3-git2


Mark Wielaard wrote:
> The rest does seem to PASS as before, but I am somewhat concerned that
> the tests were originally designed to test function (.call/return)
> probes, which are different from syscall (.return) probes. So are we
> really still testing the correct things?

I've had some of the same concerns.  Also, if we look ahead a bit, it is
possible the syscall tapset will start using tracepoint probes instead
of kprobes.  Then the tests really won't be testing the correct things.

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