akpm wrote: > [...] How do you envisage these features actually get used? Patch #20/20 in the set includes an ftrace-flavoured debugfs frontend. Previous versions of the patchset included perf front-ends too, which are probably to be seen again. > For example, will gdb be modified? Will other debuggers be modified > or written? [...] The code is not currently useful to gdb. Perhaps ptrace or an improved userspace ABI can get access to it in the form of a breakpoint-management interface, though this inode+offset style of uprobe addressing would require adaptation to the process-virtual-address style used by debugging APIs. - FChE -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>