double fault -> PAGE_KERNEL flagged memory

Tom Zanussi zanussi@us.ibm.com
Wed Nov 23 23:20:00 GMT 2005


Roland McGrath writes:
 > 
 > In the current Linus kernel, the i386 do_page_fault routine is marked with
 > __kprobes.  As I understand it, this puts it in a special section and no
 > kprobe can be inserted inside the function.  If that's the case, I'm a bit
 > confused as to how this is coming up.

This part of the thread has been a sidebar, AFAICS - the original
poster didn't mention anything about instrumenting the page fault
path.

Tom




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