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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] uprobes: fix scratch register selection for rip-relative fixups
Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 17:45:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140505154559.GA27072@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1399043040-28366-1-git-send-email-dvlasenk@redhat.com>

On 05/02, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>
> v2: More robust checks of vex.vvvv (32-bit mode safe),
>     simplified scratch reg selection code,
>     moved comments around as requested by Oleg.

OK, thanks. Given that this patch was acked by Jim, I am going to
apply it. I'll try to run a couple of systemtap scripts with this
patch, but unfortunately the "full" testing is simply impossible.

Denys, I'll also include your test-case into the changelog.

And,

>  static inline unsigned long *
>  scratch_reg(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
> -	return (auprobe->def.fixups & UPROBE_FIX_RIP_AX) ? &regs->ax : &regs->cx;
> +	/* Order is important - more than one bit can be set! */

Really?

Should I remove this comment or I misread the change in riprel_analyze?

Oleg.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-05 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-02 15:04 [PATCH v2] uprobes: fix scratch register selection for rip-relative fixups Denys Vlasenko
2014-05-02 23:43 ` Jim Keniston
2014-05-05 15:45 ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-05-05 15:47   ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-05-05 17:32   ` Denys Vlasenko

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