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From: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
To: "Jim Keniston" <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>, "Martin Hunt" <hunt@redhat.com>
Cc: "SystemTAP" <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: RE: kprobe fault handling
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:36:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44BDAFB888F59F408FAE3CC35AB4704102F4F1A3@orsmsx409> (raw)

>I just had a long chat with Richard Moore about this whole topic.  I
>agree with you on this, and I think Richard would, too.
>
>So unless there's a user-specified handler and that handler specifies
>(by returning 1) that it has handled the exception,
>kprobe_fault_handler() should run fixup_exception(), right?
>
>Now I'm looking, later in that function, at the code (on i386) where we
>handle an exception while single-stepping.  I don't think
>resume_execution() is the right thing to do here.  We haven't
>successfully executed the probed instruction, and the eip still points
>at that instruction, right?  I think we're just hosed at this point. 
>Comments?
I agree with your comments and we need a better fix. 
Currently for RHEL4 release I am inclined to remove 
DIE_PAGE_FAULT switch case as this at least improves 
the performance.

-Anil

             reply	other threads:[~2006-02-07 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-07 20:36 Keshavamurthy, Anil S [this message]
2006-02-07 20:48 ` Martin Hunt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-02-09  8:55 Mao, Bibo
2006-02-09 10:22 ` Richard J Moore
2006-02-07 22:19 Keshavamurthy, Anil S
2006-02-06 19:49 Martin Hunt
2006-02-07  0:51 ` Jim Keniston
2006-02-07 17:31   ` Jim Keniston
2006-02-07 17:50     ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-07 19:49       ` Jim Keniston
2006-02-08  4:38         ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2006-02-08 11:32           ` Richard J Moore
2006-02-09  7:23             ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-02-09 16:33               ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-02-09 21:35               ` Jim Keniston
2006-02-09 22:06                 ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-10  5:39                   ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-10 21:46                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-10 21:55                       ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-10 22:12                         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-10 22:17                           ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-10 22:20                             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-10 22:41                               ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-10 22:47                                 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-10 23:36                                   ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-11  0:49                                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-02-12  1:26                                       ` Martin Hunt
2006-02-13 13:39                                         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-06 12:56 Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2005-09-06 15:09 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-08 11:52   ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2005-09-08 17:42     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2005-09-06  1:06 Frank Ch. Eigler

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