uprobes and empty functions
Srikar Dronamraju
srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Nov 10 13:39:00 GMT 2010
>
> > I only matched "f3 c3", but I'm not sure if we need bother with other
> > rep/ret variants for this special case. [...]
>
> I'm more worried that we're finding cases where uprobes is willing to
> place a breakpoint, but is not fully up to the job of executing the
> breakpointed instruction. To what extent could we flip over the tests
> from "known not to work" to "not known to work" in rejecting
> instructions?
>
Fche,
Andi had suggested running crashme http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/3/151
I plan to run crashme on the inode based uprobes code soon. Do you
thinking running crashme would help in identifying such potential
issues?
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Thanks and Regards
Srikar
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