linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: kprobes: Prohibit probing on notrace functions

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Date:   Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:53:01 +0900
From:   Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
To:     Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@...icios.com>
Cc:     rostedt@...dmis.org, peterz@...radead.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] tracing: kprobes: Prohibit probing on notrace
 functions

On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:54:12 -0400
Francis Deslauriers <francis.deslauriers@...icios.com> wrote:

> From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>
> 
> Prohibit kprobe-events probing on notrace function.
> Since probing on the notrace function can cause recursive
> event call. In most case those are just skipped, but
> in some case it falls into infinite recursive call.

BTW, I'm considering to add an option to allow putting
kprobes on notrace function - just for debugging 
ftrace by kprobes. That is "developer only" option
so generally it should be disabled, but for debugging
the ftrace, we still need it. Or should I introduce
another kprobes module for debugging it?

Thank you,


-- 
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>