Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h

Zachary Amsden
2006-08-23T09:01:04Z

Andi Kleen wrote:
>> Yes, after discussion with Rusty, it appears that beefing up
>> stop_machine_run is the right way to go. And it has benefits for
>> non-paravirt code as well, such as allowing plug-in kprobes or oprofile
>> extension modules to be loaded without having to deal with a debug
>> exception or NMI during module load/unload.
>>
>
> I'm still unclear where you think those debug exceptions will come from

kprobes set in the stop_machine code - which is probably a really bad
idea, but nothing today actively stops kprobes from doing that.