linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/4] uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt

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Date:	Mon, 08 Apr 2013 18:29:28 +0900
From:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
To:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Anton Arapov <anton@...hat.com>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com" <yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] uprobes/tracing: Kill the pointless local_save_flags/preempt_count
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(2013/04/06 0:01), Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 04/05, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>
>> Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Masami, perhaps you can also answer the question I asked in 0/4
> marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=136458107403835 ?
> 
> 	Off-topic question... Why uprobe_perf_func() passes "addr = ip" to
> 	perf_trace_buf_submit() ? This just sets perf_sample_data->addr for
> 	PERF_SAMPLE_ADDR, do we really need this? and we already have
> 	perf_sample_data->ip initialized by perf.
>
> kprobe_perf_func() and kretprobe_perf_func() do the same.
>

Good catch! I guess that I might misunderstood that it was used
for sampling execution address. It should be replaced with (u64)0,
as perf_trace_##call() does.

> Once again, I am just curious and this is completely offtopic.

Thank you :)

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


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