[PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 18/26] 18: uprobes: commonly used filters.

[Srikar Dronamraju]

* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2011-04-21 13:37:15]:

> On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:39 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > > What you want is to save the pid-namespace of the task creating the
> > > filter in your uprobe_simple_consumer and use that to obtain the task's
> > > pid for matching with the provided number.
> > > 
> > 
> > Okay, will do by adding the pid-namespace of the task creating the
> > filter in the uprobe_simple_consumer. 
> 
> Maybe you could convert to the global pid namespace on construction and
> always use that for comparison.
> 
> That would avoid the namespace muck on comparison.. 
> 

Yeah, this idea also seems feasible.

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar