Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/7] Uprobes Implementation

[Srikar Dronamraju]

> 
> > > Furthermore it requires stopping and resuming tasks and nonsense like
> > > that, that's unwanted in many cases, just run stuff from the trap site
> > > and you're done.
> > 
> > I don't know what you mean exactly.  A trap already stopped task.
> > utrace merely allows various clients to inspect/manipulate the state
> > of the task at that moment.  It does not add any context switches or
> > spurious stop/resumue operations.
> 
> Srikar seemed to suggest it needed stop/resume.
> 

If process traps, We dont need to stop/resume other threads.
uprobes needs threads to quiesce when inserting/deleting the breakpoint.
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