On 04/17/2014 08:20 AM, Sasha Levin wrote:
> 
> It's not like the instruction decoder is a generic piece of code right now 
> anyways,
> it only serves mostly [k,u]probes and was built around the their 
> requirements, and
> now everybody are surprised that kmemcheck has different requirements than 
> kprobes.
> 

What *ARE* kmemcheck's requirements?  That's the real issue, I believe.

I also have seen several attempts at using the generic instruction
decoder which has resulted in more complexity, not less, because of
excess generality, so it is not an obvious thing.

        -hpa


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