| | Date | Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:35:28 -0800 | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH -tip v5 07/10] kprobes/x86: Support kprobes jump optimization on x86 |
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On 11/23/2009 03:22 PM, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > This uses stop_machine() for corss modifying code from int3 to jump. > It doesn't allow us to modify code on NMI/SMI path. However, since > kprobes itself doesn't support NMI/SMI code probing, it's not a > problem. >
I'm a bit confused by the above statement... does that mean you're poking int3 and *then* do stop_machine()?
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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