[Vserver] kprobes

2004-08-21 Thread Georges Toth
hi, i saw this on lwn.net: IBM developerWorks [0] shows how to use Kprobes to debug the Linux kernel. The benefits of using Kprobes are many. printk's can be inserted without rebuilding and rebooting the kernel. Processor registers can be logged and even modified for debugging -- without

[Vserver] Re: kprobes

2004-08-21 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 10:37:37AM +0200, Georges Toth wrote: hi, hi Georges! i saw this on lwn.net: IBM developerWorks [0] shows how to use Kprobes to debug the Linux kernel. The benefits of using Kprobes are many. printk's can be inserted without rebuilding and rebooting the kernel.

Re: [Vserver] Re: kprobes

2004-08-21 Thread Georges Toth
I've been monitoring the kprobes project for some time now, and it really is interesting, especially as the code required for each arch is very small maybe that could be _real_ useful for the vserver project ? :-) yeah, it probably could, especially for hunting down nasty stuff on a real

Re: [Vserver] Re: kprobes

2004-08-21 Thread Herbert Poetzl
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 06:36:48PM +0200, Georges Toth wrote: I've been monitoring the kprobes project for some time now, and it really is interesting, especially as the code required for each arch is very small maybe that could be _real_ useful for the vserver project ? :-) yeah,