Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:25:21 -0500 | From | Mathieu Desnoyers <> | Subject | Re: irq-disabled vs vmap vs text_poke |
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* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote: > > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote: > > > > I think I got a mostly working patch cobbled together sitting here > > > somewhere. I was waiting for some _really_ good use case before spending > > > more time on it. I would prefer if at all possible to do vmap operations > > > in sleepable, process context. > > > > Agreed, I think we want to fix text_poke() and make the vmap/vunmap() > > ops yell louder at violations of these rules. > > > > I'm just totally clueless wrt text_poke() hence this email ;-) > > also, this started triggering yesterday for the first time - and never > saw it before. Has some commit caused this side-effect? > > It triggers during kprobes self-test - has that been improved recently? >
When is this self-test run ? If it's at early boot while still in UP with interrupts off, kprobes should probably use text_poke_early() rather than text_poke().
Mathieu
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