Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2013 09:15:21 -0500 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: perf/tracepoint: another fuzzer generated lockup |
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On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 13:28:33 +0100 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 10:16:18AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > > Kprobes itself can detect nested call by using per-cpu current-running > > kprobe pointer. And if it is nested, it just skips calling handlers. > > Anyway, I don't recommend to probe inside the handlers, but yes, > > you can trace perf-handler by ftrace B). I actually traced a kprobe-bug > > by kprobe-tracer last night, that was amazing :) > > Ah, ok, so that would avoid the worst problems. Good. Should we still > mark the entire perf swevent path as __kprobes just to be sure?
I wouldn't unless we can prove that it breaks. It's sometimes nice to be able to debug the debugging facilities with the debugging facilities ;-)
-- Steve
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