[RFC] [PATCH 2.6.37-rc5-tip 4/20] 4: uprobes: Adding and remove a uprobe in a rb tree.
Srikar Dronamraju
srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Jan 26 15:25:00 GMT 2011
* 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.
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Thanks and Regards
Srikar
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