On Thu, 2010-01-14 at 12:09 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 17:55 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > > > Uprobes Infrastructure enables user to dynamically establish > > probepoints in user applications and collect information by executing > > a handler functions when the probepoints are hit. > > Please refer Documentation/uprobes.txt for more details. > > > > This patch provides the core implementation of uprobes. > > This patch builds on utrace infrastructure. > > > > You need to follow this up with the uprobes patch for your > > architecture. > > So all this is basically some glue between what you call ubp (the real > userspace breakpoint stuff) and utrace? Or does it do more? >
My reply in http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1001.1/02483.html addresses this. Jim