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Re: [PATCH] Kprobes- robust fault handling for i386

On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 07:39:53AM -0500, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> writes:
> 
> > [...] As of now to fix the broken kprobes fault handling, here is the
> > patch. This is only for i386, once we freeze on this prototype, this
> > can be ported to other architectures.
> > 
> > This patch provides proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified
> > pre/post handlers tries to access user address space, through
> > copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. [...]
> 
> Is it correct that this patch enables only the first bullet in
> <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/systemtap/2006-q1/msg00536.html>?

Yes.


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Thanks & Regards
Prasanna S Panchamukhi
Linux Technology Center
India Software Labs, IBM Bangalore
Email: prasanna@in.ibm.com
Ph: 91-80-51776329
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