[PATCH][kprobe]disallow kprobes on emulate_step function

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Li Guanglei <guanglei@cn.ibm.com> writes:

> [...]  So now the questions is, shall we mark all functions appeared
> in the call path to kprobe with __kprobes?

Yes, and also into the translator's blacklist.

> If so, then these functions will be put in __kprobe section. Will
> this have a negative performance impact because of the lower hit
> ratio of instruction cache?

This seems to be an unfortunate necessity.

- FChE