Fwd: [PATCH] kretprobe instance recycled by parent process

From: Zhou Yingchao
Date: Tue Feb 14 2006 - 22:37:19 EST


2006/2/15, bibo mao <bibo_mao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> When kretprobe probe schedule() function, if probed process exit then
> schedule() function will never return, so some kretprobe instance will
> never be recycled. By this patch the parent process will recycle
> retprobe instance of probed function, there will be no memory leak of
> kretprobe instance. This patch is based on 2.6.16-rc3.

Is there any process which can exit without go through the do_exit() path?
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Yingchao Zhou
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Institute Of Computing Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tel(O) : 010-62613792-28
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Yingchao Zhou
***********************************************
Institute Of Computing Technology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Tel(O) : 010-62613792-28
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