* Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org> [2010-01-15 11:33:27]: > > > Uprobes layer would need to be notified of process life-time events > > like fork/clone/exec/exit. > > No so much the process lifetimes as the vma life times are interesting, > placing a hook in the vm code to track that isn't too hard, > > > It also needs to know > > - when a breakpoint is hit > > - stop and resume a thread. > > A simple hook in the trap code is done quickly enough, and no reason to > stop the thread, its not going anywhere when it traps. > >
Some of the threads could be executing in the vicinity of the breakpoint when it is getting inserted or deleted. Wont we need to stop/quiesce those threads?
