Re: Immediate values

From: Alan Cox
Date: Fri Sep 25 2009 - 06:02:05 EST


> Then, following your advice, kprobes should be re-designed to do a
> stop_machine around the int3 breakpoint insertion ? And gdb
> should be stopping all threads of a target process before inserting a
> breakpoint. Therefore, I do not seem to be the only one confused about
> Intel statement on this issue.

There was considerable discussion abut this when the kprobe stuff went
in. If I remember rightly it was stated by someone @intel.com then that
int3 was ok (even though its not strictly documented as such). The same
is not true for all instructions on all x86 processors unfortunately.

Alan
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