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Re: thoughts about exception-handling requirements for kprobes


Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> writes:

> [...]  In simple words, system do_page_fault() can sleep [...]  So
> can the user-specifed kprobes per/post handler sleep while within
> interrupt context?

The *must* not.  If they *can*, we have a problem.

- FChE


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