Re: [PATCH v4 3.0-rc2-tip 14/22] 14: x86: uprobes exception notifier for x86.

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 15:31 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-07 at 18:31 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > @@ -844,6 +845,19 @@ do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs, void *unused, __u32 thread_info_flags)
> >         if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_SIGPENDING)
> >                 do_signal(regs);
> >  
> > +       if (thread_info_flags & _TIF_UPROBE) {
> > +               clear_thread_flag(TIF_UPROBE);
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
> > +               /*
> > +                * On x86_32, do_notify_resume() gets called with
> > +                * interrupts disabled. Hence enable interrupts if they
> > +                * are still disabled.
> > +                */
> > +               local_irq_enable();
> > +#endif
> > +               uprobe_notify_resume(regs);
> > +       } 
> 
> Would it make sense to do TIF_UPROBE before TIF_SIGPENDING? That way
> when uprobe decides it ought to have send a signal we don't have to do
> another loop through all this.


Also, it might be good to unify x86_86 and i386 on the interrupt thing,
instead of propagating this difference (unless of course there's a good
reason they're different, but I really don't know this code well).