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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: prasanna@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [3/4] Jumper Probes patch to provide function arguments
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:36:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3brhh4ooe.fsf@averell.firstfloor.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2s3ZE-7Zq-29@gated-at.bofh.it> (Prasanna S. Panchamukhi's message of "Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:20:10 +0200")

Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> writes:

+void jprobe_return(void)
+{
+	preempt_enable_no_resched();
+	asm volatile ("       xchgl   %%ebx,%%esp     \n"
+		      "       int3			\n"::"b"
+		      (jprobe_saved_esp):"memory");
+}

whatever the preempt disable is protecting against, why isn't it a 
problem during the xchgl ? 

> +#define MAX_STACK_SIZE 64
> +#define MIN_STACK_SIZE(ADDR) ((((ADDR) + MAX_STACK_SIZE) <  \
> +	(((ADDR) & PAGE_MASK) + PAGE_SIZE) ? ((ADDR) + MAX_STACK_SIZE) \
> +	: (((ADDR) & PAGE_MASK) + PAGE_SIZE )) - (ADDR))

What is this macro doing exactly? 

If it is an attempt to not read beyond the kernel stack top  i think
it is wrong. It will also randomly fail on 8k stacks at top-4K 

Use something like

max_t(unsigned long,MAX_STACK_SIZE, current_thread_info() + THREAD_SIZE - addr)


The rest looks ok.

-Andi


       reply	other threads:[~2004-08-11 16:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <2s3ZE-7Zq-29@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-08-11 16:36 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-08-12 12:32   ` [3/4] Jumper Probes patch to provide function arguments Prasanna S Panchamukhi
2004-08-11 18:06 ` [3/4] Jumper Probes patch to provide function arguments II Andi Kleen
2004-08-11 16:15 [3/4] Jumper Probes patch to provide function arguments Prasanna S Panchamukhi

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