Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

2010-02-07 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Right, so you're going to love uprobes, which does exactly that. The current proposal is overwriting the target instruction with an INT3 and injecting an extra vma into the target process's address space containing the original instruction(s) and possible jumps back to the old code

Re: linux-next: add utrace tree

2010-01-26 Thread Pavel Machek
On Fri 2010-01-22 08:43:18, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:51:39 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli said: FWIW, Oleg's implementation of ptrace over utrace is 100% compatible with legacy ptrace; gdb testsuite indicates that (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/12/21/98).

Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)

2010-01-24 Thread Pavel Machek
On Sun 2010-01-17 16:01:46, Peter Zijlstra wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 16:56 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote: On 01/17/2010 04:52 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Also, if its fixed size you're imposing artificial limits on the number of possible probes. Obviously we'll need a limit, a

Re: [RFC,PATCH 0/14] utrace/ptrace

2009-11-29 Thread Pavel Machek
On Wed 2009-11-25 16:48:18, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 09:01:27PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote: Hello. This is the new iteration of Roland's utrace patch, this time with rewrite-ptrace-via-utrace + cleanups in utrace core. 1-7 are already in -mm tree, I am