linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/ftrace: make ftrace_int3

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Message-ID: <20190430103629.0899b3a8@gandalf.local.home>
Date:   Tue, 30 Apr 2019 10:36:29 -0400
From:   Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nicolai Stange <nstange@...e.de>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
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        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] x86/ftrace: make ftrace_int3_handler() not to skip
 fops invocation

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 16:20:47 +0200
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org> wrote:

> > 
> > Sure, but that's a completely different issue. We would need to solve
> > the 'emulate' call for batch mode first.  
> 
> I don't see a problem there; when INT3 happens; you bsearch() the batch
> array to find the one you hit, you frob that into the percpu variables
> and do the thing. Or am I loosing the plot again?

I may need to tweak Linus's patch slightly, but I may be able to get it
to work with the batch mode.

-- Steve