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From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] kprobes: introduce ARCH_HANDLES_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 10:51:31 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5445BC23.6080207@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141020145321.0af7a4dd@gandalf.local.home>

(2014/10/21 3:53), Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 10:55:30 +0900
> Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> Hmm, this looks a bit not straight. Maybe we'd better introduce a local
>> check_ftrace_location() function which always returns 0 if
>> CONFIG_ARCH_HANDLES_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE(with a comment! :)) as below.
>>
>> int check_ftrace_location(kp)
>> {
>> 	unsigned long ftrace_address;
>>
>> 	/* If an architecture handles kprobes on ftrace, we don't check it */
>> 	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARCH_HANDLES_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE))
>> 		return 0;
>>
>> 	...
>> }
> 
> We can also just make that function weak, and let the archs override
> the default behavior?

Ah, that will be simpler and we don't need new Kconfig.

Thank you!

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
Software Platform Research Dept. Linux Technology Research Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com



  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-21  1:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-15 15:46 [PATCH 0/2] s390 vs. kprobes on ftrace Heiko Carstens
2014-10-15 15:46 ` [PATCH 1/2] kprobes: introduce ARCH_HANDLES_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE Heiko Carstens
2014-10-20  1:55   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-10-20 18:53     ` Steven Rostedt
2014-10-21  1:51       ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2014-10-15 15:46 ` [PATCH 2/2] s390/ftrace,kprobes: allow to patch first instruction Heiko Carstens
2014-10-16  5:49 ` [PATCH 0/2] s390 vs. kprobes on ftrace Masami Hiramatsu
2014-10-16 10:57   ` Heiko Carstens
2014-10-21  9:37     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-10-17  8:19   ` Heiko Carstens
2014-10-17  8:28     ` Heiko Carstens
2014-10-20  2:02     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2014-10-20  6:41       ` Heiko Carstens
2014-10-17  8:21   ` Heiko Carstens
2014-10-20  1:31     ` Masami Hiramatsu

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