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authorPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>2006-03-26 01:38:24 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-26 08:57:04 -0800
commit50e21f2b2861711b6df0b72ffef4a70d1532b023 (patch)
treeec25f24103f10a6a620682fc9e1ab0849c7b4dce /arch/i386/kernel
parentc28f896634f2c931a298490deab3861ab117716a (diff)
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for powerpc64
Provide proper kprobes fault handling, if a user-specified pre/post handlers tries to access user address space, through copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. The user-specified fault handler gets called only if the fault occurs while executing user-specified handlers. In such a case user-specified handler is allowed to fix it first, later if the user-specifed fault handler does not fix it, we try to fix it by calling fix_exception(). The user-specified handler will not be called if the fault happens when single stepping the original instruction, instead we reset the current probe and allow the system page fault handler to fix it up. Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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