From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
SystemTap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 7/26] 7: x86: analyze instruction and determine fixups.
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 19:52:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1303408345.2035.161.camel@laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110421173120.GJ10698@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 23:01 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
>
> Sometimes, the user might try registering a probe at a valid file +
> valid offset + valid consumer; but an instruction that we cant probe.
> Then trying to figure why its failing would be very hard.
Uhm, how about failing to create the probe to begin with?
You can even do that in userspace as you can inspect the DSO you're
going to probe (and pretty much have to, since you'll have to pass the
kernel a fd to hand it the proper inode).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-21 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 75+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-01 14:32 [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 0/26] 0: Uprobes patchset with perf probe support Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:32 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 1/26] 1: mm: replace_page() loses static attribute Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:32 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 2/26] 2: mm: Move replace_page() to mm/memory.c Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:33 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 3/26] 3: X86 specific breakpoint definitions Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:33 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 4/26] 4: uprobes: Breakground page replacement Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 12:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 14:33 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 5/26] 5: uprobes: Adding and remove a uprobe in a rb tree Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 12:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 14:33 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 6/26] 6: Uprobes: register/unregister probes Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-02 0:26 ` Stephen Wilson
2011-04-02 0:53 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-02 1:29 ` Stephen Wilson
2011-04-18 12:20 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 14:33 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 7/26] 7: x86: analyze instruction and determine fixups Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-19 13:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 17:31 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-21 17:52 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2011-04-01 14:33 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 8/26] 8: uprobes: store/restore original instruction Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 16:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 14:34 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 9/26] 9: uprobes: mmap and fork hooks Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 16:21 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-18 16:29 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-19 6:45 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:34 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 10/26] 10: x86: architecture specific task information Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:34 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 11/26] 11: uprobes: task specific information Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:34 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 12/26] 12: uprobes: slot allocation for uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 16:46 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-19 6:26 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-19 9:02 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-19 9:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-20 13:40 ` Eric Paris
2011-04-20 14:51 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2011-04-20 15:16 ` Stephen Smalley
2011-04-21 14:11 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-21 14:45 ` Eric Paris
2011-04-21 16:14 ` Roland McGrath
2011-04-21 16:59 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 13/26] 13: uprobes: get the breakpoint address Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 16:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 14/26] 14: x86: x86 specific probe handling Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 16:55 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-19 5:43 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-18 16:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 15/26] 15: uprobes: Handing int3 and singlestep exception Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-19 13:03 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-19 13:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-21 17:10 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-21 17:41 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-19 13:39 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-21 17:03 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 16/26] 16: x86: uprobes exception notifier for x86 Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 17/26] 17: uprobes: register a notifier for uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-19 13:54 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-01 14:36 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 18/26] 18: uprobes: commonly used filters Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-05 1:26 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-04-19 13:57 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-21 11:09 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-21 11:37 ` Peter Zijlstra
2011-04-21 11:49 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:36 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 19/26] 19: tracing: Extract out common code for kprobes/uprobes traceevents Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:36 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 20/26] 20: tracing: uprobes trace_event interface Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:36 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 21/26] 21: Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:47 ` [RESEND] [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 21/26] 21: Uprobe tracer documentation " Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:36 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 22/26] 22: perf: rename target_module to target Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-04 10:06 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-04-06 23:46 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 23/26] 23: perf: show possible probes in a given executable file or library Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-04 10:15 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-04-06 22:50 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 24/26] 24: perf: perf interface for uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 25/26] 25: perf: Documentation for perf uprobes Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-01 14:37 ` [PATCH v3 2.6.39-rc1-tip 26/26] 26: uprobes: filter chain Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-05 1:27 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2011-04-06 22:41 ` Srikar Dronamraju
2011-04-07 3:19 ` Masami Hiramatsu
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