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Re: user instruction tracing patch?

Hi -

On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:20:51PM -0800, Jim Keniston wrote:
> [...]
> But what both examples assume is that a task can dynamically
> enable/disable probes only for itself (in the case of utrace/itrace)
> or its own process (uprobes).

Not at all - the script fragments were merely examples of a general
syntax.  There is no reason that the probes being enabled/disabled
might not belong to an altogether "foreign" facility such as a timer,
or a kprobe, or another process's uprobe.  (This one reason why the
implementation of disableable probes will be a bit tricky.)


- FChE
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