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
next prev parent 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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