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Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2012 17:08:48 +0200
From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, benh@...nel.crashing.org,
Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Anton Blanchard <anton@...ba.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
peterz@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] uprobes: Pass probed vaddr to
arch_uprobe_analyze_insn()
On 06/06, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
>
> From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
>
> On RISC architectures like powerpc, instructions are fixed size.
> Instruction analysis on such platforms is just a matter of (insn % 4).
> Pass the vaddr at which the uprobe is to be inserted so that
> arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() can flag misaligned registration requests.
And the next patch checks "vaddr & 0x03".
But why do you need this new arg? arch_uprobe_analyze_insn() could
check "container_of(auprobe, struct uprobe, arch)->offset & 0x3" with
the same effect, no? vm_start/vm_pgoff are obviously page-aligned.
Oleg.
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