From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932086AbWEIJhK (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 05:37:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751747AbWEIJhK (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 05:37:10 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:27819 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751721AbWEIJhI (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 05:37:08 -0400 Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 10:37:07 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Prasanna S Panchamukhi Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 4/6] Kprobes: Insert probes on non-memory resident pages Message-ID: <20060509093707.GC26953@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Prasanna S Panchamukhi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, suparna@in.ibm.com, richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com References: <20060509065455.GA11630@in.ibm.com> <20060509065917.GA22493@in.ibm.com> <20060509070106.GB22493@in.ibm.com> <20060509070508.GC22493@in.ibm.com> <20060509070911.GD22493@in.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060509070911.GD22493@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 12:39:11PM +0530, Prasanna S Panchamukhi wrote: > User-space probes also supports the registering of the probe points > before the probed code is loaded. This clearly has advantages for > catching initialization problems. This involves modifying the probed > applications address_space readpage() and readpages(). Patching file-system provided method tables is completely non-acceptable. Exactly to prevent idiots like you from doing this we've started to mark them const.