Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> writes: > [...] > Sometimes I don't mind keeping around code in the kernel for out of > tree users, depending on the case. But in this specific matter we have > more standard ways to do this kind of hook: kprobes, static > tracepoints. A tracepoint on the timer tick would be useful BTW, and > you could reuse it.
Thanks for noticing! IMO kprobes would be too heavyweight for this. A new static tracepoint would be fine, especially if it passes the same pt_regs* pointer as the former hook did. - FChE -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
