Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfs
authorAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Tue, 8 May 2007 07:34:16 +0000 (00:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 8 May 2007 18:15:19 +0000 (11:15 -0700)
commitbf8f6e5b3e51ee0c64c2d1350c70198ddc8ad3f7
treec48ebb92f836cfac58465eacc9658fbc2bac4783
parent4c4308cb93450989846ac49faeb6dab943e7657e
Kprobes: The ON/OFF knob thru debugfs

This patch provides a debugfs knob to turn kprobes on/off

o A new file /debug/kprobes/enabled indicates if kprobes is enabled or
  not (default enabled)
o Echoing 0 to this file will disarm all installed probes
o Any new probe registration when disabled will register the probe but
  not arm it. A message will be printed out in such a case.
o When a value 1 is echoed to the file, all probes (including ones
  registered in the intervening period) will be enabled
o Unregistration will happen irrespective of whether probes are globally
  enabled or not.
o Update Documentation/kprobes.txt to reflect these changes. While there
  also update the doc to make it current.

We are also looking at providing sysrq key support to tie to the disabling
feature provided by this patch.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Use bool like a bool!]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add printk facility levels]
[cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com: Add the missing arch_trampoline_kprobe() for s390]
Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Documentation/kprobes.txt
arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c
arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
arch/s390/kernel/kprobes.c
arch/x86_64/kernel/kprobes.c
include/linux/kprobes.h
kernel/kprobes.c