Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Wed Aug 23 2006 - 05:39:06 EST


On Wednesday 23 August 2006 11:36, Zachary Amsden wrote:
> Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> I need to look at the kprobes code in more depth to answer completely.
> >> But in general, there could be a problem if DRs are set to fire on any
> >> EIP
> >>
> >
> > kprobes don't use DRs
>
> Good to know. But int3 breakpoints can still cause horrific breakage in
> the stop_machine code. I don't know a good way to disallow it.

Mark the functions as __kprobes

-Andi
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