From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@roeck-us.net (Guenter Roeck) Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2019 07:50:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: Generalize and rename notify_page_fault() as kprobe_page_fault() In-Reply-To: <1560420444-25737-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> References: <1560420444-25737-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> List-ID: Message-ID: <20190629145009.GA28613@roeck-us.net> To: linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org Hi, On Thu, Jun 13, 2019@03:37:24PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: > Architectures which support kprobes have very similar boilerplate around > calling kprobe_fault_handler(). Use a helper function in kprobes.h to unify > them, based on the x86 code. > > This changes the behaviour for other architectures when preemption is > enabled. Previously, they would have disabled preemption while calling the > kprobe handler. However, preemption would be disabled if this fault was > due to a kprobe, so we know the fault was not due to a kprobe handler and > can simply return failure. > > This behaviour was introduced in the commit a980c0ef9f6d ("x86/kprobes: > Refactor kprobes_fault() like kprobe_exceptions_notify()") > With this patch applied, parisc:allmodconfig images no longer build. In file included from arch/parisc/mm/fixmap.c:8: include/linux/kprobes.h: In function 'kprobe_page_fault': include/linux/kprobes.h:477:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'kprobe_fault_handler'; did you mean 'kprobe_page_fault'? Reverting the patch fixes the problem. Guenter