How does jprobes/kprobes work ?

Badari Pulavarty pbadari@us.ibm.com
Mon Mar 14 21:30:00 GMT 2005


Hi,

I am just wondering how does jprobes provide the arguments
to the function if I enable IRQ_STACKS on PPC64 or
4KSTACKS on i386 ? This forces the interrupt to be taken
on a per-processor stacks, there by loosing original stack.

Does the code go thro the trouble of finding out the original
stack and copy it for arguments ?

In the future as part of your project, how do you plan to
provide access to arguments & local variables in such
scenerios ?

Thanks,
Badari



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