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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>
Cc: Pratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>,
	William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>,
	       systemtap@sourceware.org, Mark Brown <broonie@linaro.org>,
	       Jeremy Linton <jlinton@redhat.com>,
	David Smith <dsmith@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: exercising current aarch64 kprobe support with systemtap
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 19:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0m60sh8bki.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <577EA7EE.2070607@linaro.org> (David Long's message of "Thu, 7 Jul 2016 15:05:18 -0400")

David Long <dave.long@linaro.org> writes:

> [...]
>> - bug_handler() calls report_bug() which calls __warn()
>> - __warn() does lot of pr_warn()  which invokes print_worker_info()
>> where we have a kprobe instrumented.
>> - Therefore, we are encountering this issue.
>> [...]
> It sounds like the only fix would be to expand the blacklist to any
> function that could be called in a debug exception-handling context? [...]

The kernel maintains its own blacklist by means of designating some
low-level functions with the "__kprobes" attribute.  That protects
those regions of code from "perf probe"-directed kprobes too. 

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2016-07-07 19:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-09 16:17 William Cohen
2016-06-09 19:52 ` William Cohen
2016-06-10  3:42   ` David Long
2016-06-10  5:49   ` David Long
2016-06-10 13:43     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-06-10 14:03       ` William Cohen
2016-06-10 14:37         ` David Long
2016-06-10 15:27           ` William Cohen
2016-06-10 14:20       ` David Long
2016-06-10 15:11         ` William Cohen
2016-06-10 17:07         ` Pratyush Anand
2016-07-12 14:33     ` William Cohen
2016-07-13 18:26       ` David Long
2016-07-13 18:47         ` Pratyush Anand
2016-07-13 19:45           ` William Cohen
2016-06-10 21:28 ` William Cohen
2016-06-10 21:37   ` William Cohen
2016-06-13  4:28   ` Pratyush Anand
2016-06-13 13:42     ` William Cohen
2016-06-22 20:24   ` William Cohen
2016-06-23  3:19     ` David Long
2016-06-23 13:42       ` William Cohen
2016-06-23 13:47         ` David Smith
2016-06-23 15:49       ` William Cohen
2016-06-23 18:26         ` David Long
2016-06-23 19:22           ` William Cohen
2016-06-27  2:57             ` David Long
2016-06-27 14:18             ` Pratyush Anand
2016-06-28  3:20               ` William Cohen
2016-07-04 12:46                 ` Pratyush Anand
2016-07-07 19:05                   ` David Long
2016-07-07 19:58                     ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2016-08-03 13:13                       ` Pratyush Anand
2016-08-03 14:51                         ` William Cohen
2016-08-03 15:11                           ` David Long
2016-08-03 17:40                         ` William Cohen
2016-08-03 20:00                           ` Lastest kprobes64 patch David Long
2016-08-03 20:01                             ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2016-08-03 20:08                               ` David Long
2016-08-04  5:03                             ` Pratyush Anand
2016-08-04 13:07                               ` David Long
2016-08-04  4:42                           ` exercising current aarch64 kprobe support with systemtap Pratyush Anand
2016-08-04 13:57                             ` William Cohen
2016-08-04 14:36                               ` Pratyush Anand
2016-08-04 14:50                                 ` William Cohen
2016-08-04 20:51                                 ` William Cohen
2016-08-17 14:36                                   ` William Cohen
2016-08-17 18:04                                     ` David Smith
2016-08-17 18:28                                       ` William Cohen
2016-08-18 15:07                                         ` David Smith
2016-08-18 15:16                                           ` William Cohen
2016-08-18 15:39                                             ` David Smith
2016-08-18 14:55                                     ` Pratyush Anand
2016-06-13 16:11 ` William Cohen
2016-06-13 16:15   ` William Cohen
2016-06-14  4:27   ` Pratyush Anand

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