linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] uprobes: Add uprobes support for ARM

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Date:	Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:10:22 +0000
From:	"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@...aro.org>
To:	David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
Cc:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	Taras Kondratiuk <taras.kondratiuk@...aro.org>,
	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linaro Networking <linaro-networking@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 00/15] uprobes: Add uprobes support for ARM

On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 15:17 -0500, David Long wrote:
> Masami/Tixy,
> 
> As I just noted in a previous email the kprobes.h thing has come back to 
> haunt me.  Something more is needed in my last patchset.  Tixy's 
> suggestion regarding the arch_specific_insn structure:
> 
> > However, I also wonder if we should instead leave arch_specific_insn as
> > a kprobes specific structure and on ARM define it in terms of a new more
> > generic 'struct probe_insn'? The drawback with that is that we'd
> > probably end up with a struct just containing a single member which
> > seems a bit redundant:
> >
> > struct arch_specific_insn {
> > 	struct probe_insn pinsn;
> > };
> >
> > Thought's anyone?
> 
> ...got me thinking.  When I do as he suggests and create a new 
> arch-specific structure for sharing between kprobes and uprobes then it 
> turns out simply #define'ing the arch_specific_insn structure tag to the 
> new structure tag in arch/arm/include/kprobes.h makes everything happy. 
>   When KPROBES is not configured that include file is (still) not 
> included and the generic kprobes.h include file still continues to make 
> a dummy structure for it.  My question is:  Is it too hacky to use a 
> #define for a structure tag this way?

I can't think of any technical reason why this wouldn't work and I see
you've have implemented this method in the latest uprobes patches [1].

It does mean that would be able to progress with ARM uprobes if there is
no immediate enthusiasm for making kprobes/uprobes more unified at the
generic kernel layers.

[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2013-December/219463.html

-- 
Tixy


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