Re: [PATCH 1/5] Kprobes: Temporary disarming of reentrant probe

[Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>]

> @@ -55,6 +61,9 @@ struct kprobe {
>  	/* list of kprobes for multi-handler support */
>  	struct list_head list;
>  
> +	/*count the number of times this probe was temporarily disarmed */
> +	unsigned long nmissed;

You declare a variable.

> +
>  	/* location of the probe point */
>  	kprobe_opcode_t *addr;
>  
> diff -puN kernel/kprobes.c~kprobes-temporary-disarming-on-reentrancy-generic kernel/kprobes.c
> --- linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2/kernel/kprobes.c~kprobes-temporary-disarming-on-reentrancy-generic	2005-05-24 15:28:08.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.12-rc4-mm2-prasanna/kernel/kprobes.c	2005-05-24 15:28:08.000000000 +0530
> @@ -334,6 +334,7 @@ int register_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
>  	}
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&kprobe_lock, flags);
>  	old_p = get_kprobe(p->addr);
> +	p->nmissed = 0;

And then you set it to 0.

And nothing more. Surely this patch does not do anything. Looks like
some code is missing.

-Andi