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[Bug kprobes/4531] systemtap tests fail produce kernel oops on some configs of 2.6.22-rc2 kernel


------- Additional Comments From joshua dot i dot stone at intel dot com  2007-05-23 01:05 -------
(In reply to comment #10)
> This isn't going to work well with things like kprobes that expect to be able to
> put software break points in code.

Perhaps kprobes can add code that overrides the page protection when adding a
probe?  It may be able to add write access the page long enough to write the
breakpoint, and then turn the write back off...

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