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From: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@redhat.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, rusty@rustcorp.com.au,
	ananth@in.ibm.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com,
	jbaron@redhat.com, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com" <yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] kprobes: constify check_kprobe_address_safe and friends
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:45:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5107B670.1000800@hitachi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51020566.6040408@oracle.com>

(2013/01/25 13:09), Sasha Levin wrote:
> As to arch_check_optimized_kprobe() and check_kprobe_address_safe(), this
> is simply way too confusing. It doesn't make sense that a function named
> check_[...]() would modify any of it's parameters.
> 
> For example, that entire block within KPROBES_CAN_USE_FTRACE should be split
> out and go into update_kprobe_for_ftrace() or something similar.
> 
> If that makes sense, I can send a patch to split out all the parts that
> modify anything in those two functions out of them.

I see, that makes sense :-)

Thank you,

-- 
Masami HIRAMATSU
IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-29 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-09 23:09 [PATCH 1/5] module: constify within_module_* Sasha Levin
2013-01-09 23:09 ` [PATCH 2/5] jump label: constify lookup functions Sasha Levin
2013-01-15 20:46   ` Sasha Levin
2013-01-15 23:19     ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-18 21:25   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-21  6:51     ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-25  4:15     ` Sasha Levin
2013-01-25 10:16       ` Borislav Petkov
2013-01-25 13:03         ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-18 21:25   ` Steven Rostedt
2013-01-09 23:09 ` [PATCH 3/5] kprobes: constify check_kprobe_address_safe and friends Sasha Levin
2013-01-21 11:49   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-01-25  4:09     ` Sasha Levin
2013-01-29 11:45       ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2013-01-09 23:09 ` [PATCH 4/5] alternatives: constify alternatives_text_reserved Sasha Levin
2013-01-21 11:38   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2013-01-09 23:09 ` [PATCH 5/5] ftrace: constify ftrace_text_reserved Sasha Levin
2013-01-10  9:02 ` [PATCH 1/5] module: constify within_module_* Rusty Russell

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