Re: [PATCH -tip v5 13/18] notifier: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro innotifier

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Tue Dec 10 2013 - 22:04:51 EST


(2013/12/11 11:58), Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2013/12/09 19:47), Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro to protect functions from
>> kprobes instead of __kprobes annotation in notifier.
>
> Ah, this must just removes __kprobes since we don't use notify_die
> for kprobes anymore...

Oops, NO. kprobes generically still using the exception notifier to handle
GPF in the handler even on x86... For safety, I'd like to keep it as it is
until all dependency is removed.

Thank you,


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Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@xxxxxxxxxxx


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