Posted Jan 22, 2010 2:24 UTC (Fri) by ananth (subscriber, #12051)
Parent article: A uprobes addendum
That discussion was mostly about utrace; SystemTap, utrace and uprobes are three distinct entities, though the version of uprobes posted to lkml recently did depend on utrace.
Uprobes can and will be implemented without the utrace dependency -- there is sufficient interest in having some form of userspace tracing in Linux.