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Re: [Bug kprobes/2476] Switch Kprobes inline functions to __kprobes?
- From: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna at in dot ibm dot com>
- To: bibo dot mao at intel dot com <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- Cc: systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 10:00:31 +0530
- Subject: Re: [Bug kprobes/2476] Switch Kprobes inline functions to __kprobes?
- References: <20060323004500.2476.jkenisto@us.ibm.com> <20060410032409.9593.qmail@sourceware.org>
- Reply-to: prasanna at in dot ibm dot com
On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 03:24:09AM -0000, bibo dot mao at intel dot com wrote:
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> ------- Additional Comments From bibo dot mao at intel dot com 2006-04-10 03:24 -------
> This patch works my IA64 box, but I have one question, almost all function in
> arch/i386/kernel/kprobe.c is prefixed with __kprobes. currently I think that
> the whole kernel path for KPROBE_REENTER routine should not be probed, and I do
> know whether there are other cases which should not be probed also.
True, apart from KPROBE_REENTER, probes on routines from interrupt
handler to the kprobes_handler() can cause recursion.
Thanks
Prasanna
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Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Linux Technology Center
India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore
Email: prasanna@in.ibm.com
Ph: 91-80-51776329