Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Thu, 05 Aug 2010 21:35:05 +0900 | From | Masami Hiramatsu <> | Subject | [PATCH 1/2] kprobes: Update document about irq disabled state in kprobe handler |
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Update kprobes.txt about interrupts disabled state inside kprobes handlers, because optimized probe/boosted kretprobe run without disabling interrrupts on x86.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org ---
Documentation/kprobes.txt | 8 +++++--- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt index 6653017..4189f01 100644 --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt @@ -541,9 +541,11 @@ Kprobes does not use mutexes or allocate memory except during registration and unregistration.
Probe handlers are run with preemption disabled. Depending on the -architecture, handlers may also run with interrupts disabled. In any -case, your handler should not yield the CPU (e.g., by attempting to -acquire a semaphore). +architecture and optimization state, handlers may also run with +interrupts disabled (e.g., kretprobe handlers and optimized kprobe +handlers run without interrupt disabled on x86/x86-64). In any case, +your handler should not yield the CPU (e.g., by attempting to acquire +a semaphore).
Since a return probe is implemented by replacing the return address with the trampoline's address, stack backtraces and calls
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