On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 12:37 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > > > > The other thing is that this patchset really doesn't quite justify > > utrace. It's growing a lot more code without actually growing any > > useful functionality. What about all those other utrace killer > > features that have been promised for a long time? > > > > We are working on in-kernel gdbstub which was one of the features that > you had asked for. gdbstub does pass unit tests; but we are looking at > some way to hack the GDB testsuite to run its regression tests. Once we > are able to run the GDB testsuite and utrace is part of some upstream > tree, we plan to post these patches to LKML for comments. gdbstub uses > utrace and uprobes underneath. Uprobes was rewritten to remove issues > that LKML developers had opposed. Uprobes also has its own ftrace plugin > to use uprobes. > > Currently in-kernel gdbstub is hosted by Frank Ch. Eigler over here: > git://web.elastic.org/~fche/utrace-ext.git > branch name utrace-gdbstub-uprobes
If its anywhere near functioning it would have made sense to send it out as an RFC patch-set right along with the utrace one.