Re: [GIT PULL] uprobes: pre-filtering

From: Oleg Nesterov
Date: Mon Jan 28 2013 - 11:05:31 EST


On 01/28, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>
> * Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> [2013-01-25 17:17:28]:
>
> > This is what I am going to (try to) do, but I am not sure if this makes
> > sense...
> >
> > For the start, can't we teach 'uprobe_events' file to accept, say,
> >
> > 'p file:0x1234 pid=1 other-opts'
>
>
> I think this would be a very good start

Good.

So will you agree with 3/4 and 3/4 ?

> The only downside, I see is we would have add and remove to change the
> filter. Something like perf record will not be able to dynamically
> change the filter parameter.

Yes, this is only the first step.

Oleg.

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