Re: [RFC] [PATCH 3/6] Kprobes: New interfaces for user-space probes

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 04:58:35PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Hi -
> 
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 10:40:52PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > It is reasonable to want to see code that exercises this function.
> > > Until systemtap does, hand-written examples can surely be provided.
> > 
> > It's not about examples, it's about in-kernel users.
> 
> Just as for kprobes, this facility is for dynamically generated
> kernel-resident code.

kprobes is not for "dynamically generated kernel-resident code".  That's
just what you abuse it for. 

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