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kprobes: Add mcount to the kprobes blacklist
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Since mcount function can be called from everywhere,
it should be blacklisted. Moreover, the "mcount" symbol
is a special symbol name. So, it is better to put it in
the generic blacklist.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100205062433.3745.36726.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Masami Hiramatsu authored and Ingo Molnar committed Feb 15, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ static struct kprobe_blackpoint kprobe_blacklist[] = {
{"native_get_debugreg",},
{"irq_entries_start",},
{"common_interrupt",},
{"mcount",}, /* mcount can be called from everywhere */
{NULL} /* Terminator */
};

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