Re: [RFC] [PATCH 7/7] Ftrace plugin for Uprobes

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu Jan 14 2010 - 07:29:46 EST


On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 13:23 +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
>
> I see, so what you suggest is to have the probe set up
> as generic first. Then the process that activates it
> becomes a consumer, right?

Right, so either we have it always on, for things like ftrace,

in which case the creation traverses rmap and installs the probes
all existing mmap()s, and a mmap() hook will install it on all new
ones.

Or they're strictly consumer driver, like perf, in which case the act of
enabling the event will install the probe (if its not there yet).

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