Re: [PATCH] Kprobes causes NX protection fault on i686 SMP

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Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[email protected]> writes:

> This patch fixes the problem seen on i686 machine with NX support,
> where the instruction could not be single stepped because of NX
> bit set on the memory pages allocated by kprobes module. This patch
> provides allocation of instruction solt so that the processor can
> execute the instruction from that location similar to x86_64
> architecture. Thanks to Bibo and Masami for testing this patch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <[email protected]>

Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <[email protected]>

-Andi
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