linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/13] tracing/kprobes: Make stack and memory fetch functions static

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Message-ID: <5204B346.4010904@hitachi.com>
Date:	Fri, 09 Aug 2013 18:15:50 +0900
From:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>,
	Hyeoncheol Lee <cheol.lee@....com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	"zhangwei(Jovi)" <jovi.zhangwei@...wei.com>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/13] tracing/kprobes: Make stack and memory fetch functions
 static

(2013/08/09 16:35), Namhyung Kim wrote:
> Hi Masami-san,
> 
> On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 18:04:09 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> (2013/07/31 18:03), Namhyung Kim wrote:
>>> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@....com>
>>>
>>> Those fetch functions need to be implemented differently for kprobes
>>> and uprobes.  Since the symbol and deref fetch functions don't call
>>> those directly anymore, we can make them static and implement them
>>> separately.
>>
>> Hmm, I think this should be done in 1/13, since this is partially
>> reverted it in the same series. If you concern about tweaking other
>> one's patch, you can add you singed-off-by to it. :)
> 
> The problem is that it should be marked static after converting to
> ->fetch() member.  Otherwise the symbol and deref fetch method won't see
> memory fetch functions like:

Ah, right. We still use it from deref. :)

Thanks!


-- 
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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