arm64 kprobes patches

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Thu Feb 27 11:48:00 GMT 2014


Hi -

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:12:26AM +0530, Sandeepa Prabhu wrote:
> [...]
> Even on arm64, there are kernel functions that fails for kprobes,
> (example: memcpy, memset etc) that are referenced by kprobe handler
> themselves.

That is normal & fine, if "fails for kprobes" means only that the
kprobes refuse to be registered.  A failure that brings down the
kernel is much worse.

- FChE



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