[PATCH 3/9] uprobes: allow ignoring of probe hits

Rabin Vincent rabin at rab.in
Tue Oct 16 16:11:50 EDT 2012


2012/10/15 Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>:
> On 10/14, Rabin Vincent wrote:
>> Allow arches to decided to ignore a probe hit.  ARM will use this to
>> only call handlers if the conditions to execute a conditionally executed
>> instruction are satisfied.
>
> Not sure I understand why we shouldn't call handlers in this case,
> but OK, I know nothing about arm.

This old discussion about kprobes should be useful:

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-March/045755.html
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2011-March/046544.html

> This conflicts with other changes in
>
>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/oleg/misc uprobes/core
>
> Could you re-diff?

OK, I will rebase them.



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