notify_page_fault() problem

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Tue May 1 15:40:00 GMT 2007


Quentin Barnes <qbarnes@urbana.css.mot.com> writes:

> [...]  That doesn't matter.  Just having the kprobes and kretprobes
> data structures being in module memory is all that matters.  [...]

I recall thinking of extending the systemtap startup code sequence to
force mapping of the entire module data/text memory, hoping to prevent
vmalloc faults during execution.  Does this sound like a plausible
hack around such problems?

- FChE



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