Re: [PATCH 10/18] 2.6.17.9 perfmon2 patch for review: PMU context switch support

[Andi Kleen]

On Friday 25 August 2006 13:56, Stephane Eranian wrote:

> > I suppose some of those functions must be marked __kprobes
> >  
> Are there any guidelines as to why some functions must be ignored
> by kprobes? I assume if meaans they cannot be instrumented.

It does yes.

In general anything that could cause kprobes to recurse is forbidden.
-Andi
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