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SubjectRe: [BUG] Kprobes fails on 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 (x86) systems, if CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA is set.
* Srinivasa DS (srinivasa@in.ibm.com) wrote:
> Insertion of kprobe module causes oops on 2.6.25-rc3-mm1 (x86) systems if we
> enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. While registering the probe, memcpy() fails to
> copy breakpoint instruction to the instruction address and generates the
> oops.
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffffff8047d1a7
> IP: [<ffffffff8047ff62>] text_poke+0xa/0x10
> PGD 203067 PUD 207063 PMD 7e191163 PTE 47d161
> Oops: 0003 [1] PREEMPT SMP
> ................................................
>
> This is because, Mathieu's patch (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/2/226) makes
> entire text segment as READONLY, if we enable CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA.
>
> So reverting this patch or new patch, which considers kprobes while deciding
> boundary for setting readonly pages might solve the probelm.
>

Hi,

Are you running under Xen, lguest, kvm.. ?

Mathieu

> Thanks
> Srinivasa DS
> LTC-IBM
>
>
>
>

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