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KPROBES — Kprobes (experimental)

Kprobes allows you to trap the CPU at almost any kernel address and execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes a probepoint and specifies the callback. Kprobes is useful for kernel debugging, non-intrusive instrumentation, and testing.

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