Re: [PATCH 2/7] uprobes/x86: Fold prepare_fixups() into arch_uprobe_analyze_insn()

[Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> [2014-03-31 21:43:59]:

> No functional changes, preparation.
> 
> Shift the code from prepare_fixups() to arch_uprobe_analyze_insn()
> with the following modifications:
> 
> 	- Do not call insn_get_opcode() again, it was already called
> 	  by validate_insn_bits().
> 
> 	- Move "case 0xea" up. This way "case 0xff" can fall through
> 	  to default case.
> 
> 	- change "case 0xff" to use the nested "switch (MODRM_REG)",
> 	  this way the code looks a bit simpler.
> 
> 	- Make the comments look consistent.
> 
> While at it, kill the initialization of rip_rela_target_address and
> ->fixups, we can rely on kzalloc(). We will add the new members into
> arch_uprobe, it would be better to assume that everything is zero by
> default.
> 
> TODO: cleanup/fix the mess in validate_insn_bits() paths:
> 
> 	- validate_insn_64bits() and validate_insn_32bits() should be
> 	  unified.
> 
> 	- "ifdef" is not used consistently; if good_insns_64 depends
> 	  on CONFIG_X86_64, then probably good_insns_32 should depend
> 	  on CONFIG_X86_32/EMULATION
> 
> 	- the usage of mm->context.ia32_compat looks wrong if the task
> 	  is TIF_X32.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju