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[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for ia64
authorPrasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 09:38:25 +0000 (01:38 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:57:04 +0000 (08:57 -0800)
commit9036c2cea5fb42a91629cb5aaae9fde023a1b983
tree15ce6f9c86785226e41b2385d4f8e6db7b48e980
parent5d9c32ebf66bc6f2f733279cc23064902596864d
[PATCH] kprobes: fix broken fault handling for ia64

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>
Acked-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy<anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c