kprobe fault handling

Frank Ch. Eigler fche@redhat.com
Fri Feb 10 22:20:00 GMT 2006


Hi -

> > Always for the same reason: because it invokes functions that can
> > might sleep (and are in fact documented as such).  
> 
> Which function are those?

Er, the "__copy_from_user" family?!  The "_inatomic" function, whose
name encodes its very inatomicity?

- FChE



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