instrumenting vs. module loading

Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli amavin@redhat.com
Fri May 13 15:03:00 GMT 2005


Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> 
> I don't have much idea about in kernel details of module loading and
> unloading, but I'd imagine we'll encounter "interesting" issues if a
> different module is loaded in the same text range with such a stray
> kprobe.

On more thought, we won't see any such issues - we won't have the 
breakpoint hit at all - the whole text gets overlaid right?

Doh! what was I thinking earlier.. need more coffee :-)

Ananth





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