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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: prasanna@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, suparna@in.ibm.com,
	dprobes@www-124.southbury.usf.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [0/3] PATCH Kprobes for x86_64- 2.6.9-final
Date: 29 Oct 2004 01:41:19 +0200
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 01:41:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041028234119.GB80511@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041028111554.6879f3ca.davem@davemloft.net>

> The kprobe notifier has to run for the case where the kernel
> does a userspace access and faults.  This is to handle the
> case of setting a kprobe on a userspace access instruction.
> In such a event, we must unwind the reset the program counter
> so that exception table processing is done with the correct
> PC not the temporary one kprobes is using to execute the
> instruction where the breakpoint currently lives.

Ok that makes sense. Thanks for the explanation (the original 
submitter didn't give one). 

-Andi


      reply	other threads:[~2004-10-28 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-28 11:32 [0/3] PATCH Kprobes for x86_64- 2.6.9-final Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-28 11:34 ` [1/3] " Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-28 11:35   ` [2/3] " Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-28 11:38     ` [3/3] " Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-30 21:06       ` [patch 3/3] kprobes : Minor changes for sparc64 Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-30 21:03     ` [patch 2/3] kprobes : kprobes ported to x86_64 Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-30 20:59   ` [patch 1/3] kprobes: Minor i386 changes required for porting kprobes " Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-28 11:37 ` [0/3] PATCH Kprobes for x86_64- 2.6.9-final Andi Kleen
2004-10-28 15:53   ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-10-28 23:42     ` Andi Kleen
2004-10-28 18:15   ` David S. Miller
2004-10-28 23:41     ` Andi Kleen [this message]

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