systemtap minutes 20060427 kprobes portion

[Hien Nguyen]

Attendees
IBM - Ananth, Prasanna, Hien , Henry, Ryan, Jeff
Hitachi - Satoshi

User space probes -
Prasanna will post patches again next week, this time with the clear 
description and usages.

Fault handling -
Regarding setjmp and longjmp handlers, kgdb folks has this code sit on 
mm tree. We need to work with kgdb folks on how to add this code to the 
main line.

Helps Andrew -
People have a better description and mention the level of seriousness 
for the patch. We need have a clean up patche to fix all the coding styles.

Kprobes-booter -
Hitichi folks should test this patch on other architectures to make the 
it does not break the build and the common code.

kretprobe (null out unsued handlers) patch is in RHEL4 U4.