On 07/02, Srikar Dronamraju wrote: > > > Implement the reference counter logic in core uprobe. User will be > > able to use it from trace_uprobe as well as from kernel module. New > > trace_uprobe definition with reference counter will now be: > > > > <path>:<offset>[(ref_ctr_offset)] > > > > where ref_ctr_offset is an optional field. For kernel module, new > > variant of uprobe_register() has been introduced: > > > > uprobe_register_refctr(inode, offset, ref_ctr_offset, consumer) > > > > Sorry for bringing this again, but I would actually think the ref_ctr is > a consumer property. i.e the ref_ctr_offset should be part of > uprobe_consumer. Damn yes ;) I was thinking about this too but decided to discuss this later. But this probably means more complications, I am not sure about the actual implementation. Oleg.