Re: [PATCH -tip v2 3/3] [BUGFIX] kprobes: Prohibit probing onfunc_ptr_is_kernel_text

From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Wed Nov 06 2013 - 07:21:19 EST


On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 07:07:37 +0100
Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> So until compilers get smarter (or there's some compiler trick I haven't
> noticed) lets stay with the separate section - it's not the end of the
> world, the (effective) 'noinline' aspect of noprobes changes code
> generation anyway.
>

It's fine now. I just wanted everyone to be ware if this annotation
starts to get used a bit more, that it can cause unwanted side effects.

-- Steve
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