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[Bug translator/11424] dwarfless kprobe.* probes don't validate at translate time


------- Additional Comments From dsmith at redhat dot com  2010-03-23 22:00 -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> This is because kprobe.* probes cannot currently be tested
> for validity at translate time.

One (not necessarily great) possibility would be to test for validity at run-time.

>  If the logic looked through
> a symbol table of some sort, it could work.  It could then
> expand wildcards.
> 
> session.exported_symbols is actually a plausible source of
> such data, even though it's only a subset.  $kernel-builddir/System.map
> is another plausible source.

If we can't get this working, another possibility here would be to disallow '!'
for kprobe.function.  This would be better than not working as advertised.

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