Fixed PR13146 by not allowing memory allocations to sleep (Was: [SCM] systemtap: system-wide probe/trace tool branch, master, updated. release-1.6-151-g8e794e9)

[David Smith]

On 09/27/2011 06:00 PM, Jim Keniston wrote:

> I haven't seen this explicitly mentioned wrt this thread or PR13146, but
> uprobes and uretprobe handlers (which are called from the utrace
> report_signal callback) can sleep.


Jim,

For my information, can uprobe/uretprobe handlers sleep in the new
uprobes being proposed upstream?

(Note that in the new utrace-less task_finder I'm working on, handlers
can't sleep since they get called from a tracepoint, whose handlers
can't sleep.)

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