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From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: David Long <dave.long@linaro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in>,
	"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@linaro.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
	davem@davemloft.net, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 00/14] uprobes: Add uprobes support for ARM
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2014 00:53:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140304005306.GO21483@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140303205039.GA8949@redhat.com>

On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 09:50:39PM +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 03/02, David Long wrote:
> >
> > Oleg,
> >
> > I've been looking at arch/Kconfig and kernel/trace/Kconfig where they
> > deal with uprobes.  The relevant items are CONFIG_UPROBES and
> > CONFIG_UPROBE_EVENT.  It just doesn't look right to me.
> 
> Yes, this looks strange. I never understood these dependencies. In fact
> I even never tried. And I do not really understand kbuild, unfortunately...
> 
> >> --- a/arch/Kconfig
> >> +++ b/arch/Kconfig
> >> @@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ config KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
> >>
> >>  config UPROBES
> >>  	bool "Transparent user-space probes (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> >> -	depends on UPROBE_EVENT && PERF_EVENTS
> >> +	depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_UPROBES
> >> +	depends on PERF_EVENTS
> 
> And why CONFIG_UPROBES should depend on PERF_EVENTS? uprobes can be
> used by (say) systemtap without UPROBE_EVENT/PERF_EVENTS.
> 
> But as Russell pointed out the events directory is only built if
> CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y, so it should depend on it or select...
> 
> 
> I dunno. Personally I vote for the patch from Srikar in
> 
> 	http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1017186
> 
> This is what we currently have, currently CONFIG_UPROBES is not
> user-selectable anyway.

Yes, me too, but with the proviso that UPROBE_EVENT also sorts itself
out with PERF_EVENTS in some way too (either by selecting it, which
IMHO isn't nice, or by depending on it, or the build dependency itself
gets sorted.)

Maybe a simpler answer would be to change the build stuff (hand-crafted):

kernel/Makefile
-obj-$(CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += events/
+obj-y += events/

and kernel/events/Makefile:

-obj-y := core.o ring_buffer.o callchain.o
+perf-y := core.o ring_buffer.o callchain.o

-obj-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) += hw_breakpoint.o
+perf-$(CONFIG_HAVE_HW_BREAKPOINT) += hw_breakpoint.o
+
+obj-${CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS) += $(perf-y)

?

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-04  0:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-10  7:38 [PATCH v6 00/14] uprobes: Add uprobes support for ARM David Long
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 01/14] uprobes: allow ignoring of probe hits David Long
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 02/14] ARM: move shared uprobe/kprobe definitions into new include file David Long
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 03/14] ARM: Move generic arm instruction parsing code to new files for sharing between features David Long
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 04/14] ARM: move generic thumb instruction parsing code to new files for use by other feature David Long
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 05/14] ARM: use a function table for determining instruction interpreter action David Long
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 06/14] ARM: Disable jprobes test when built into thumb-mode kernel David Long
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 07/14] ARM: Remove use of struct kprobe from generic probes code David Long
2014-02-28 10:12   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-28 14:11     ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2014-03-02 10:37     ` David Long
2014-03-02 12:11       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-02-10  7:38 ` [PATCH v6 08/14] ARM: Make the kprobes condition_check symbol names more generic David Long
2014-02-10  7:39 ` [PATCH v6 09/14] ARM: Change more ARM kprobes symbol names to something more David Long
2014-02-10  7:39 ` [PATCH v6 10/14] ARM: Rename the shared kprobes/uprobe return value enum David Long
2014-02-10  7:39 ` [PATCH v6 11/14] ARM: Change the remaining shared kprobes/uprobes symbols to something generic David Long
2014-02-10  7:39 ` [PATCH v6 12/14] ARM: Add an emulate flag to the kprobes/uprobes instruction decode functions David Long
2014-02-10  7:39 ` [PATCH v6 13/14] ARM: Make arch_specific_insn a define for new arch_probes_insn structure David Long
2014-02-10  7:39 ` [PATCH v6 14/14] ARM: add uprobes support David Long
2014-03-01 12:30 ` [PATCH v6 00/14] uprobes: Add uprobes support for ARM Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-03-02 12:02   ` David Long
2014-03-03  6:23     ` Srikar Dronamraju
2014-03-03 10:08       ` David Long
2014-03-03 10:39       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2014-03-03 20:50     ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-04  0:53       ` Russell King - ARM Linux [this message]
2014-03-04 17:31         ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-03-06  8:10           ` David Long

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