[RFC PATCH 0/3] Djprobe improvement patches (Re: Dynamic djprobe)

Karim Yaghmour karim@opersys.com
Tue Aug 2 18:29:00 GMT 2005


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> However, the right place for such an analyzer is likely not in or near
> the djprobes code at all, in much the same way that the kprobes code
> basically trusts the instruction address given by the caller.  For
> example, as a part of future systemtap work, we may be able to do such
> djprobes applicability checking based on debug info.

Sure, but then the djprobe mechanism is useless until such an analyzer
becomes available.

Karim
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