Re: [0/3] PATCH Kprobes for x86_64- 2.6.9-final

[David S. Miller]

On 28 Oct 2004 13:37:44 +0200
Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Like I still would like to have the page fault notifier
> completely moved out of the fast path into no_context 
> (that i386 has it there is also wrong). Adding kprobe_runn 
> doesn't make a difference.

You can't do that actually Andi.

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.
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