Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:29:35 +0530 | From | Prasanna S Panchamukhi <> | Subject | Re: kprobe support for memory access watchpoints |
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Jeff,
> I was wondering if there are plans to support a method to register > watchpoints for memory data access with kprobe. On x86, it's possible to > watch for read/write access to arbitrary memory locations via DR memory > registers.
Here are couple of patches providing debug register allocation mechanism and kernel API to register watchpoints. These patches were posted and reviewed on lkml some time back, Please see the URL below for details.
http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/Oct/4730.html http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2004/Oct/4729.html
Thanks Prasanna --
Prasanna S Panchamukhi Linux Technology Center India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore Ph: 91-80-25044636 <prasanna@in.ibm.com> - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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