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Message-ID: <20070331130601.GA18947@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 14:06:01 +0100
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: "Stone, Joshua I" <joshua.i.stone@...el.com>
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@...ibm.com>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
SystemTAP <systemtap@...rces.redhat.com>,
Satoshi Oshima <soshima@...hat.com>,
Hideo Aoki <haoki@...hat.com>,
Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@...achi.com>,
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@...hat.com>, hch@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][Patch 1/4] kprobe fast unregistration
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 11:12:22AM -0700, Stone, Joshua I wrote:
> The ability to disable/reenable kprobes would be an interesting
> enhancement. However, unregister_disabled_kprobes() shouldn't have a
> global effect, because there might be a concurrent kprobes user that
> disabled a probe with the intention of reenabling it later.
enabling/disabling probes sounds like a wonderful additional feature.
I don't think we should expose it as a kernel interface, but rather
through debugfs so I can temporarily disable and then reenable probes
from the shell easily.
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