Re: [Patch] kprobes exception notifier fix 2.6.9-rc2

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Sep 23 2004 - 03:08:19 EST


On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:00:29AM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote:
> In order to make other debuggers use exception notifiers, kprobes
> notifier return values are required to be modified. This patch modifies the
> return values of kprobes notifier return values in a clean way.

It's incompatible to x86-64. If you change anything in exception
notifiers change both.

And I don't really see the sense of inverting the test: NOTIFY_OK
for handling the exception should be as good as NOTIFY_STOP.

-Andi
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