On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 12:55 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote: > Instructions such as VFP, kprobes tracing, etc are expected fault > locations, and those are fairly well controlled where they can be placed. > With things like ftrace, it certainly is the case that the unwinder can > theoretically be called from almost anywhere in a function. Actually, kprobes can be places on any instruction in the kernel that isn't in the section .kprobes.text. I also strongly suspect that stack unwinding won't happen correctly across the boundary between the kprobes handling code and the function which was probed - there's an awful lot of stack jiggery pokery going on there. -- Tixy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arm-msm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
