Re: [Fault-injection-developer] We need to get up to speed with the kprobes proposal on lkml

[Rob R. <err...@li...>]

On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 10:49, Lynch, Rusty wrote:
> The dprobes guys are working with a strategy where all of the infrastructure
> for attaching probe points, kernel hooks, and dealing with architecture
> specific debug registers is covered by a kprobes patch, and then dprobes
> would just be one of many consumers of kprobes.
> 
> The debates are happening right now, with kprobes patches posted for 2.5.44.
> We need to get a good understanding of these patches since I suspect we 
> could at least be a consumer of kprobes (if not of dprobes which will depend
> on kprobes.)

Yeah, that was my thinking as well. Which is why I forwarded that
previous email from the lkml on kprobes vs. dprobes.

> 
> Also, depending on how successful dprobes is at this approach, we could 
> model our involvement with the kernel after dprobes.
> 
> 	-rusty
> 

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