From: oleg@redhat.com (Oleg Nesterov)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 04/13] uprobes: allow arch-specific initialization
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 14:52:47 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131101135247.GA16509@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5272A45B.20507@linaro.org>
On 10/31, David Long wrote:
> On 10/28/13 14:58, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> On 10/22, David Long wrote:
>> I simply do not understand why uprobes.c uses module_init/module_exit,
>> it can't be compiled as a module.
>
> I guess that makes sense, assuming it can never be made a module. I saw
> you recent commit for this.
>
>> I think that module_exit/exit_uprobes should be killed, and module_init()
>> should be turned into __initcall(). uprobes-arm.c can have another one.
>>
>
> I will see if I can make this work.
If this can't work, then we need the new hook (this patch). But in this
case please update the changelog to explain the reason.
> Right now the arch-specific
> initialization call is done in the middle of the generic initialization
> code, but I don't know that it *has* to be that way. I have some
> concern too about getting the order right, since these are built from
> different makefiles.
Not sure I understand... But grep shows a lot of core_initcall()'s in
arch/arm/ which do register_undef_hook(). And I guess you can use any
initcall level.
Oleg.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-01 13:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 59+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-15 21:04 [PATCH v2 00/13] uprobes: Add uprobes support for ARM David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] uprobes: move function declarations out of arch David Long
2013-11-05 16:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-05 18:16 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-05 19:01 ` [PATCH] uprobes: Export write_opcode() as uprobe_write_opcode() Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-05 19:55 ` David Long
2013-11-05 19:13 ` [PATCH v2 01/13] uprobes: move function declarations out of arch David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 02/13] uprobes: allow ignoring of probe hits David Long
2013-10-19 17:02 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-22 3:45 ` David Long
2013-10-22 11:25 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-22 23:56 ` David Long
2013-10-28 18:54 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-30 21:11 ` David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 03/13] uprobes: allow arch access to xol slot David Long
2013-10-19 16:36 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-23 0:03 ` David Long
2013-10-29 15:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-04 19:49 ` [PATCH] uprobes: introduce arch_uprobe->ixol Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-04 21:25 ` David Long
2013-11-05 16:04 ` David Long
2013-11-05 18:01 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-05 18:45 ` David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 04/13] uprobes: allow arch-specific initialization David Long
2013-10-19 16:42 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-23 1:21 ` David Long
2013-10-28 18:58 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-31 18:41 ` David Long
2013-11-01 13:52 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2013-11-04 3:24 ` David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 05/13] uprobes: add arch write opcode hook David Long
2013-10-19 16:50 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-23 18:20 ` David Long
2013-10-28 19:49 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-29 19:59 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-11-02 3:33 ` David Long
2013-11-02 14:03 ` Oleg Nesterov
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 06/13] ARM: move shared uprobe/kprobe definitions into new include file David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 09/13] ARM: Disable jprobe selftests in thumb kernels David Long
2013-11-07 17:26 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-11-10 22:57 ` David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 10/13] kprobes: Remove uneeded kernel dependency on struct arch_specific_insn David Long
2013-11-13 17:13 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-11-14 2:02 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-11-14 14:15 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-11-14 20:33 ` David Long
2013-11-15 10:23 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-11-15 15:16 ` David Long
2013-11-15 10:11 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-11-14 1:20 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 11/13] ARM: Finish renaming ARM kprobes APIs for sharing with uprobes David Long
2013-11-13 17:16 ` Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-11-15 15:45 ` David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 12/13] ARM: add uprobes support David Long
2013-10-15 21:04 ` [PATCH v2 13/13] ARM: Remove uprobes dependency on kprobes David Long
[not found] ` <1381871068-27660-8-git-send-email-dave.long@linaro.org>
2013-11-13 17:09 ` [PATCH v2 07/13] ARM: move generic thumb instruction parsing code to new files for use by other features Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-11-14 14:13 ` David Long
[not found] ` <1381871068-27660-9-git-send-email-dave.long@linaro.org>
2013-11-13 17:11 ` [PATCH v2 08/13] ARM: use a function table for determining instruction interpreter actions Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
2013-11-14 15:17 ` David Long
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