Re: [PATCH] user_events: Enable user processes to create and write to trace events

[Peter.Enderborg]

On 10/6/21 12:44 AM, Beau Belgrave wrote:
> User mode processes that wish to use trace events to get data into
> ftrace, perf, eBPF, etc are limited to uprobes today. The user events
> features enables an ABI for user mode processes to create and write to
> trace events that are isolated from kernel level trace events. This
> enables a faster path for tracing from user mode data as well as opens
> managed code to participate in trace events, where stub locations are
> dynamic.

Is this not very much what the trace_marker do?