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Message-Id: <1190822975.3940.17.camel@localhost>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 12:09:35 -0400
From: Avishay Traeger <atraeger@...sunysb.edu>
To: ananth@...ibm.com
Cc: prasanna@...ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KPROBES: Instrumenting a function's call site
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 14:33 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> What happens when the "call" is singlestepped is that the instruction
> pointer is moved to the call target. That explains the lower latency you
> are seeing. You'll need to do something along the lines I suggested in
> the earlier mail.
Can you please explain what you mean by this more clearly? I'm not a
kprobes expert yet. Specifically, using kprobes the way that I did,
what will the resulting code look like? Also, what do you mean by
"singlestepped"?
Thanks,
Avishay
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