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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: prasanna@in.ibm.com
Cc: Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>,
	systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: thoughts about exception-handling requirements for kprobes
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:33:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0md5ghnq2f.fsf@ton.toronto.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060320091825.GB8662@in.ibm.com>


Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> writes:

> [...]  In simple words, system do_page_fault() can sleep [...]  So
> can the user-specifed kprobes per/post handler sleep while within
> interrupt context?

The *must* not.  If they *can*, we have a problem.

- FChE

  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-20 14:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-09 16:00 Richard J Moore
2006-03-10  3:46 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2006-03-17 21:51 ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-03-19 17:24   ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-03-20  8:47     ` Richard J Moore
2006-03-20  9:18       ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-03-20 14:33         ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]
2006-03-20  9:43       ` Richard J Moore
2006-03-20 18:40     ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-03-21  0:34       ` Richard J Moore
2006-03-21  0:53         ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-03-21  5:23       ` Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
2006-03-21  9:41       ` Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2006-03-21 22:46         ` Keshavamurthy Anil S
2006-03-22  2:37           ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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