Re: [2/3 PATCH] Kprobes: User space probes support- readpage hooks

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Mar 21 2006 - 06:25:51 EST


On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:12:55PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> What does this entire feature *do*? Why does Linux need it?

it's what dtrace does. thus the marketing departments at ibm and redhat
decided to copy the features 1:1 instead of thinking what problem they
want to solve.

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