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kprobes on by default in 2.6.20.1 kernel.org kernels
- From: Nathan DeBardeleben <ndebard at lanl dot gov>
- To: "systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com" <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 16:24:14 -0700
- Subject: kprobes on by default in 2.6.20.1 kernel.org kernels
I just wanted to probe (har har) to see if you guys knew why kprobes is
set to "Y" (in the kernel) by default on the latest 2.6.20.1 kernel I
got from kernel.org. I don't consider this a great move and am a little
worried about it. For one thing, I know now we'll actively make certain
it's off in all future kernels we build that are intended for production
machines.
I grabbed the latest kernel to do some kprobes testing, went to
configure it to turn probing on and was very surprised to find it on by
default.
What's the process that the kernel maintainers go through to determine
which options are on by default anyway?
Thanks!
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-- Nathan
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Nathan DeBardeleben, Ph.D.
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Parallel Tools Team
High Performance Computing Environments (HPC-4)
phone: 505-667-3428
email: ndebard@lanl.gov
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