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Tiezhu Yang 438697a39f docs, kprobes: Remove invalid URL and add new reference
The following reference is invalid, remove it.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-kprobes/index.html

Add the following new reference "An introduction to KProbes":
https://lwn.net/Articles/132196/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1635213091-24387-3-git-send-email-yangtiezhu@loongson.cn

Signed-off-by: Tiezhu Yang <yangtiezhu@loongson.cn>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2021-10-26 17:23:46 -04:00
Peter Zijlstra ec6aba3d2b kprobes: Remove kprobe::fault_handler
The reason for kprobe::fault_handler(), as given by their comment:

 * We come here because instructions in the pre/post
 * handler caused the page_fault, this could happen
 * if handler tries to access user space by
 * copy_from_user(), get_user() etc. Let the
 * user-specified handler try to fix it first.

Is just plain bad. Those other handlers are ran from non-preemptible
context and had better use _nofault() functions. Also, there is no
upstream usage of this.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210525073213.561116662@infradead.org
2021-06-01 16:00:08 +02:00
Naveen N. Rao 2165b82fde docs: Move kprobes.rst from staging/ to trace/
Kprobes contitutes a dynamic tracing technology and as such can be
moved alongside documentation of other tracing technologies.

Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/8a09c01c64b2e003d5486c4f0c89740618f1bae4.1595331824.git.naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2020-07-23 14:01:24 -06:00