[RFC][Patch 0/2] New Probe family : probe kprobe.function()

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Prerna Saxena <prerna@linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> Here's a prototype of a new language feature in systemtap : probe
> kprobe [...]

Looks good.  I suggest a few changes:

- removal of ".inline"-related logic/variables, since they are inherently
  unavailable
- removal of registration/unregistration code that was added for symbolic
  kprobes only to optimize the thousands-of-probes case, such as the
  char*/char[] automagic selector
- initialization of the new systemtap_session field 
- adding test cases, documentation, NEWS blurb

To what extent does the kernel's symbolic kprobe logic allow probes to
be placed within modules?  Would it be worthwhile to allow numeric
probe addresses (as in kernel.statement(0xaddr).absolute)?


- FChE