Re: [PATCHv11 2.6.36-rc2-tip 5/15] 5: uprobes: Uprobes(un)registration and exception handling.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 22:12 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> 
> 3. Ingo has a requirement for allowing normal users to use uprobes thro
> perf. When this feature gets implemented, we have to be careful about a
> normal users trying to just trace their application resulting in it
> hitting performance all other users. 

For that I guess we should have a way to tie a uprobe to a filedesc or
somesuch, that way whenever the owner dies, the probe goes away.

Such probes would also obviuosly get a filter that limits it to tasks of
its own user etc..
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