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Date: Sun, 30 Aug 2009 02:53:56 +0200
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
       DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>,
       Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip tracing/kprobes 3/6] kprobes/x86: Fix to add
	__kprobes to in-kernel fault handing functions
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On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 01:23:11PM -0400, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Add __kprobes to the functions which handles in-kernel fixable page faults.
> Since kprobes can cause those in-kernel page faults by accessing kprobe data
> structures, probing those fault functions will cause fault-int3-loop
> (do_page_fault has already been marked as __kprobes).


BTW, is it possible to assert a struct kprobe (and its pointer members)
haven't been allocated through vmalloc() ?