Re: [PATCH v2 7/11] Uprobes Implementation

[Frank Ch. Eigler]

Hi -

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:32:18PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> [...]
> Right so what I've suggested several times it to simply call the same
> handler in both contexts. If it returns -EFAULT, set TIF_UPROBE or
> whatever and try again from task context.

That could work, but random partial execution & restart of the handler
will make it tricky to write a single handler that reliably produces
results.  It would likely need a flag to indicate that it failed
previously so as to throw away partial results.

- FChE
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