Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/6] Kprobes: Insert probes on non-memory resident pages

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue May 09 2006 - 05:38:13 EST


On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:39:11PM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote:
> User-space probes also supports the registering of the probe points
> before the probed code is loaded. This clearly has advantages for
> catching initialization problems. This involves modifying the probed
> applications address_space readpage() and readpages().

Patching file-system provided method tables is completely non-acceptable.
Exactly to prevent idiots like you from doing this we've started to mark
them const.

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