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From: Josh Stone <jistone@redhat.com>
To: systemtap@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: automated way to find functions that we might want to blacklist
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F1847E0.7010103@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120119131003.GC26534@sli.dy.fi>

On 01/19/2012 05:10 AM, Sami Liedes wrote:
> Is there a way to blacklist a single place where one of these is
> inlined? I don't think blacklisting the offending function where these
> are inlined would prevent the crash with 'probe
> kernel.function("hash_64") {}'. Or would it?

Currently, we don't.  We do check whether the inlined address is
anywhere within a __kprobes-marked function, but the name comparison is
only done on the inline function itself.  We could enhance this though,
because that nesting hierarchy is present in DWARF.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-01-19 16:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-12-22 23:33 Timo Juhani Lindfors
2011-12-24 14:27 ` Sami Liedes
2012-01-15 21:46   ` Sami Liedes
2012-01-15 22:13     ` Sami Liedes
2012-01-17 20:18     ` David Smith
2012-01-17 21:55       ` Sami Liedes
2012-01-19 13:10       ` Sami Liedes
2012-01-19 16:42         ` Josh Stone [this message]

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