On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:23 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:56 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > This patch implements ftrace plugin for uprobes. > > Right, like others have said, trace events is a much saner interface. > > So the easiest way I can see that working is to register uprobes against > a file (not a pid).
Just to clarify, this means you can do things like: p:uprobe_event dso:symbol[+offs] Irrespective of whether there are any current user of that file.