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SubjectRe: [PATCH 01/52] perf tools: Fix jump label always changing during tracing
On 07/22/2014 05:11 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:00:34AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
>> Em Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 04:17:10PM +0300, Adrian Hunter escreveu:
>>> Intel PT decoding walks the object code to reconstruct
>>> the trace. A jump label change during tracing causes
>>> decoding errors.
>
> You'd better fix that, jump_labels can change any time and they're all
> over the frigging place.
>

Perhaps a general method is needed to be able to deal with kernel
self-modifying code.



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