Re: KPROBES: Instrumenting a function's call site

On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 14:33 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> What happens when the "call" is singlestepped is that the instruction
> pointer is moved to the call target. That explains the lower latency you
> are seeing. You'll need to do something along the lines I suggested in
> the earlier mail.

Can you please explain what you mean by this more clearly?  I'm not a
kprobes expert yet.  Specifically, using kprobes the way that I did,
what will the resulting code look like?  Also, what do you mean by
"singlestepped"?

Thanks,
Avishay

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