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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6][RFC] kprobes: Allow probe on ftrace reserved text (but move it)
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:29:56 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y0mk411mbuz.fsf@fche.csb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1335535294.28106.206.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (Steven Rostedt's message of "Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:01:34 -0400")

Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> writes:

> [...]
> What do you think of this patch?
> [...]
> +	/*
> +	 * If the address is located on a ftrace nop, set the
> +	 * breakpoint to the following instruction.
> +	 */
> +	ftrace_addr = ftrace_location((unsigned long)addr);
> +	if (unlikely(ftrace_addr)) {
> +		addr = (kprobe_opcode_t *)(ftrace_addr + MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE);
> +		p->flags |= KPROBE_FLAG_MOVED;
> +	}
> [...]

I suspect Masami intended that this flag is later used during int3
processing to subtract MCOUNT_INSN_SIZE back out from the pt_regs->ip
during kprobe_handler() if this flag was set.

- FChE

      reply	other threads:[~2012-04-27 15:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-26  2:29 [PATCH 0/6][RFC] tracing/kprobes: Get ready for -mfentry Steven Rostedt
2012-04-26  2:29 ` [PATCH 1/6][RFC] ftrace: Sort all function addresses, not just per page Steven Rostedt
2012-04-26  2:29 ` [PATCH 2/6][RFC] ftrace: Remove extra helper functions Steven Rostedt
2012-04-26  2:29 ` [PATCH 3/6][RFC] ftrace: Speed up search by skipping pages by address Steven Rostedt
2012-04-26  2:29 ` [PATCH 4/6][RFC] ftrace: Consolidate ftrace_location() and ftrace_text_reserved() Steven Rostedt
2012-04-26  2:29 ` [PATCH 5/6][RFC] ftrace: Return record ip addr for ftrace_location() Steven Rostedt
2012-04-26  2:29 ` [PATCH 6/6][RFC] kprobes: Allow probe on ftrace reserved text (but move it) Steven Rostedt
2012-04-26 10:12   ` Masami Hiramatsu
2012-04-27 14:01     ` Steven Rostedt
2012-04-27 15:29       ` Frank Ch. Eigler [this message]

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