Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751483AbWHWJgo (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:36:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751484AbWHWJgo (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:36:44 -0400 Received: from mailout1.vmware.com ([65.113.40.130]:22991 "EHLO mailout1.vmware.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751483AbWHWJgn (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Aug 2006 05:36:43 -0400 Message-ID: <44EC21A3.1040905@vmware.com> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2006 02:36:35 -0700 From: Zachary Amsden User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andi Kleen Cc: Arjan van de Ven , virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andrew Morton , Chris Wright , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] paravirt.h References: <1155202505.18420.5.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200608231106.26696.ak@suse.de> <44EC1C7C.9020304@vmware.com> <200608231120.42679.ak@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <200608231120.42679.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 600 Lines: 17 Andi Kleen wrote: >> I need to look at the kprobes code in more depth to answer completely. >> But in general, there could be a problem if DRs are set to fire on any >> EIP >> > > kprobes don't use DRs Good to know. But int3 breakpoints can still cause horrific breakage in the stop_machine code. I don't know a good way to disallow it. Zach - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/