Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/7] User Space Breakpoint Assistance Layer (UBP)

[Avi Kivity]

On 01/18/2010 02:06 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-01-18 at 14:01 +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
>    
> > Maybe you place no value on uprobes.  But people who debug userspace
> > likely will see a reason.
> >      
> I do see value in uprobes, I just don't like it mucking about with the
> address space. Nor does it appear required.
>    

Well, the alternatives are very unappealing.  Emulation and 
single-stepping are going to be very slow compared to a couple of jumps.

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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function

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