[Bug kprobes/2476] Switch Kprobes inline functions to __kprobes?

Prasanna S Panchamukhi prasanna@in.ibm.com
Mon Apr 10 04:30:00 GMT 2006


On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 03:24:09AM -0000, bibo dot mao at intel dot com wrote:
> 
> ------- Additional Comments From bibo dot mao at intel dot com  2006-04-10 03:24 -------
> This patch works my IA64 box, but I have one question, almost all function in 
> arch/i386/kernel/kprobe.c is prefixed with __kprobes. currently I think that 
> the whole kernel path for KPROBE_REENTER routine should not be probed, and I do 
> know whether there are other cases which should not be probed also.

True, apart from KPROBE_REENTER, probes on routines from interrupt
handler to the kprobes_handler() can cause recursion.

Thanks
Prasanna
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Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Linux Technology Center
India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore
Email: prasanna@in.ibm.com
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