On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 02:20:31PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Friday 25 August 2006 13:56, Stephane Eranian wrote:
>
> > > I suppose some of those functions must be marked __kprobes
> > >
> > Are there any guidelines as to why some functions must be ignored
> > by kprobes? I assume if meaans they cannot be instrumented.
>
> It does yes.
>
> In general anything that could cause kprobes to recurse is forbidden.
In the case of the PMU context switch, are you saying that you may
context switch as a consequence of hitting a (K)probe?
--
-Stephane
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