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From: David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
To: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>, Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>,
	       systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Fixed PR13146 by not allowing memory allocations to sleep (Was: [SCM] systemtap: system-wide probe/trace tool branch, master, updated. release-1.6-151-g8e794e9)
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E8C5FC3.6070007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1317164453.3979.9.camel@localhost>

On 09/27/2011 06:00 PM, Jim Keniston wrote:

> I haven't seen this explicitly mentioned wrt this thread or PR13146, but
> uprobes and uretprobe handlers (which are called from the utrace
> report_signal callback) can sleep.


Jim,

For my information, can uprobe/uretprobe handlers sleep in the new
uprobes being proposed upstream?

(Note that in the new utrace-less task_finder I'm working on, handlers
can't sleep since they get called from a tracepoint, whose handlers
can't sleep.)

-- 
David Smith
dsmith@redhat.com
Red Hat
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-05 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20110901143940.13672.qmail@sourceware.org>
2011-09-27 14:52 ` Mark Wielaard
2011-09-27 22:03   ` Josh Stone
2011-09-27 23:01     ` Jim Keniston
2011-09-28 12:12       ` Mark Wielaard
2011-10-05 13:44         ` David Smith
2011-10-05 13:47       ` David Smith [this message]
2011-10-05 15:24         ` Jim Keniston
2011-10-05 16:00         ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2011-10-25 12:07     ` Fixed PR13146 by not allowing memory allocations to sleep Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-10-25 12:19       ` Mark Wielaard
2011-10-31 10:26         ` Mark Wielaard
2011-10-31 15:19           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-10-31 15:30             ` Mark Wielaard

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