Re: [RFC][Patch 1/4] kprobe fast unregistration

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:22:48PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Really?  What possible problems can occur?  The worst that occurs to
> me is that if someone forgets to call the commit function, the kprobes
> will still be disabled, but memory won't be recycled for a while.

Exactly.  It's a very unintuitive interface, exposing implementation
details to the user.  The array variant otoh is obvious to the user:
gice me an array of probes to register/unregister and do it.

> Would it be possible to allay even that concern with an automated
> deferred/periodic commit?

That's even worse from the user perspective interface. 

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