[PATCH 1/2] arm64: Blacklist non-kprobe-able symbols

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Mon Jul 6 02:03:24 PDT 2015


On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 06:03:21AM +0100, Pratyush Anand wrote:
> Add all function symbols which are called from do_debug_exception under
> NOKPROBE_SYMBOL, as they can not kprobed.

It's a shame this has to be so manual, but I suppose it's done on a
best-effort basis to catch broken probe placement.

If we miss a function and somebody probes it, do we just get stuck in a
recursive exception, or could we print something suggesting that a symbol
be annotated as NOKPROBE?

Will



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