[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)
commitc04c1c81e211c2c95b548add7923e1d4ba4847ab
tree15ce6f9c86785226e41b2385d4f8e6db7b48e980
parent50e21f2b2861711b6df0b72ffef4a70d1532b023
[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