Re: [PATCH tip/master v4] kprobes: extable: Identify kprobes' insn-slots as kernel text area

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Tue Jan 10 2017 - 03:59:27 EST


On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 11:36:48AM -0600, Josh Poimboeuf wrote:
> BTW, I think we'll have more problems with generated code if/when we
> move to an x86 DWARF unwinder, because it won't have any idea how to
> unwind past generated code. Long term I wonder if it would make sense
> to create some kind of framework for creating or registering generated
> code, so we can solve these types of problems in a single place.

Yes, this seems like a good idea. Maybe we could pull the rbtree thing
from modules and make that a more generic interface for code
registration.