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Kprobes has a counter 'nmissed', that is used to count the number of times a probe handler was not called. This generally happens when we hit a kprobe while handling another kprobe. However, if one of the probe handlers causes a fault, we are currently incrementing 'nmissed'. The comment in fault handler indicates that this can be used to account faults taken by the probe handlers. But, this has never been the intention as is evident from the comment above 'nmissed' in 'struct kprobe': /*count the number of times this probe was temporarily disarmed */ unsigned long nmissed; Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210601120150.672652-1-naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.