kernel panic when kretprobe all system calls

Hien Nguyen hien@us.ibm.com
Mon Sep 26 15:55:00 GMT 2005


Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:

>Hi -
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>>[... kretprobes on syscalls ...]
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>This has been seen before, and is being tracked as bug #1345 in
>bugzilla.  It has apparently been reproduced by the kretprobes
>developers and is being debugged.  More RAM seems to trigger the
>bug less often.
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>- FChE
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It helps if  we don't insert return probes in sys_calls such as 
sys_execve, sys_exit, sys_groupexit. Frank, can we tempory put an 
retprobe embargo policy on those system calls?

Hien.



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