Re: [TEST PATCH] Test NMI kprobe modules

[Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>]

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> 
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 
> > +long debug_eip, debug_cs, debug_eflags, debug_extra, debug_extra2, debug_extra3, debug_extra4;
> > +long debugo_eip, debugo_cs, debugo_eflags, debugo_extra, debugo_extra2, debugo_extra3, debugo_extra4;
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_eip);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_cs);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_eflags);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_extra);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_extra2);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_extra3);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debug_extra4);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debugo_eip);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debugo_cs);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debugo_eflags);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debugo_extra);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debugo_extra2);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debugo_extra3);
> > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(debugo_extra4);
> 
> ok, while this is a test patch of yours, lets make one thing sure: all 
> things hook-alike instrumentation _MUST_ and will stay stay GPL 
> exported. It's all very internal, and there will be no automatic, 
> programmable interface stability guarantees for any of the markers that 
> kabi crap could come and shackle the kernel with ... (it will all be 
> stable to SystemTap of course - but SystemTap is a kernel-internal 
> entity in that regard)
> 
> 	Ingo
> 

Yes, I agree. This patch is just an ugly test-hack. :)

I already designed my LTTng tracer so it follows changes to the internal
kernel structures as easily as possible, but yes, it is kernel internal
too.

Mathieu

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