[SCM] systemtap: system-wide probe/trace tool branch, jistone/inode-uprobes, created. release-1.4-377-gf8e4aa0

[SCM] systemtap: system-wide probe/trace tool branch, jistone/inode-uprobes, created. release-1.4-377-gf8e4aa0

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commit f8e4aa0bc62d79bfc7a2dcb1508215a675d9f83d
Author: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu May 19 19:44:16 2011 -0700

    Add initial support for inode-based uprobes
    
    This adds support for placing regular userspace probes using the new
    inode+offset API being developed for the upstream kernel.  This includes
    probing functions, statements, and SDT markers, but return probes aren't
    yet supported in the new API.  A lot of the finer details of systemtap's
    userspace runtime still needs work too, but this is a functional start.
    
    * runtime/uprobes-inode.c: New, basic registration code to lookup
      filename inodes and connect uprobes using the new API.
    * tapsets.cxx (kernel_supports_inode_uprobes): New, guess whether this
      is an inode-uprobes kernel based on CONFIG values.
      (dwarf_builder::build): Disallow userspace return probes.
      (uprobe_derived_probe::join_group): Only trigger task_finder and the
      manual uprobes model for the old style of uprobes.
      (uprobe_builder::build): Disallow absolute-address userspace probes.
      (uprobe_derived_probe_group::emit*): Split into inode/utrace variants.

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