Re: [PATCH v4] [RFC] trace: Add kprobe on tracepoint

[Masami Hiramatsu]

On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:02:25 -0400
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 10:27:35 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > I like to prohibit latter one. It is my feeling, but I think it is
> > natural that the eprobe is only for the static events, and I also think
> > dereferencing a pointer-type field in raw-event is more reliable than
> > dereferencing a digit value passed to the synthetic event.
> 
> Although I believe we need to attach eprobes to synthetic events, for
> the reasons I stated in my previous email. I'm perfectly happy to
> forbid them from attaching to kprobe or uprobe events. Because,
> honestly, eprobes do not give you anything that a kprobe nor uprobe can
> give you.

Agreed. It is meaningless to put eprobes on kprobes or uprobes.

Thank you,

> 
> -- Steve


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