Re: [PATCHv2] x86 trace: Fix page fault tracing bug

[Steven Rostedt]

On Fri, 28 Feb 2014 08:11:59 -0800
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> If so, do we need to hoist the reading of %cr2 all the way into assembly
> or something else?

Function tracing code should not fault. Peter and Jiri were discussing
on IRC to make sure that perf could not enable userspace stack tracing
for function tracing.

At this point, I would say, lets get rid of any users of function
tracing callbacks that can fault. There callbacks are limited in
context even more so than any other context (faults, interrupts, and
NMIs).

-- Steve
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