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Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2.6.37-rc5-tip 4/20] 4: uprobes: Adding and remove a uprobe in a rb tree.


* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2011-01-26 11:14:07]:

> On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 14:15 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Okay, Will do, but Is there a reason for moving the fvalue out of the
> > uprobe_consumer? Except for reducing the size of the structure, I am
> > unable to see advantage. 
> 
> That's about it, and its the normal way to do such things in kernel
> space.

But the disadvantage would be we wont be able to share the filter
functions. Currently i had one patch that implemented the common
filter functions that tracers could reuse.

-- 
Thanks and Regards
Srikar


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