[RFC] [PATCH 5/6] Kprobes: Single step the original instruction out-of-line

Christoph Hellwig hch@infradead.org
Tue May 9 09:38:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:42:04PM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote:
> Even if the vma cannot be extended, then the instruction much be
> executed inline, by replacing the breakpoint instruction with the
> original instruction.

Patching pagecache content is not acceptable.  Just fail the probe
in this case.



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