On 07/04/2018 12:56 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > On 07/03, Ravi Bangoria wrote: >> >> Now about adding ref_ctr_offset into uprobe_consumer. Actually, I >> didn't want to change the uprobe_consumer definition because it's >> already exported and tools like systemtap are using it. > > So what? Yes, the out-of-tree modules should be updated, but this doesn't > mean we can add the new features. > > And, speaking of systemtap, it already has to do build-time checks to verify > that uprobe_consumer->ret_handler member exists. So it will need another > STAPCONF_INODE_REFCNT and that is all. Ok. let me explore that possibility as well. Thanks, Ravi
