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Re: Hitachi djprobe mechanism
- From: Karim Yaghmour <karim at opersys dot com>
- To: Masami Hiramatsu <masami dot hiramatsu at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil dot s dot keshavamurthy at intel dot com>, Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu at sdl dot hitachi dot co dot jp>, Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>, Richard J Moore <richardj_moore at uk dot ibm dot com>, SystemTAP <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, sugita at sdl dot hitachi dot co dot jp, Satoshi Oshima <soshima at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:21:20 -0400
- Subject: Re: Hitachi djprobe mechanism
- Organization: Opersys inc.
- References: <44BDAFB888F59F408FAE3CC35AB4704101E506F6@orsmsx409> <42E83895.6070602@opersys.com> <42E83CEC.8040702@opersys.com> <f86b20530507280922819d927@mail.gmail.com>
- Reply-to: karim at opersys dot com
Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> I think so. the size of smallest jmp instruction is 2 bytes on i386,
> but the smallest instruction is 1byte on i386 (ex. pushl %esi).
> I will try to add safety check routine in sched() and do_IRQ().
I'm sorry, I'm probably missing something. What will the checks in
sched() and do_IRQ() do to avoid problems?
Karim
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