linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5 07/16] ARM: Remove use of struct kprobe from generic probes code

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Date:	Mon, 03 Feb 2014 21:07:24 -0500
From:	David Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
To:	"Jon Medhurst (Tixy)" <tixy@...aro.org>
CC:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Rabin Vincent <rabin@....in>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...stprotocols.net>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>,
	davem@...emloft.net, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 07/16] ARM: Remove use of struct kprobe from generic
 probes code

On 02/03/14 09:57, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 15:05 -0500, David Long wrote:
>> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@...aro.org>
>>
>> Change the generic ARM probes code to pass in the opcode and architecture-specific
>> structure separately instead of using struct kprobe, so we do not pollute
>> code being used only for uprobes or other non-kprobes instruction
>> interpretation.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@...aro.org>
>> ---
>
> One minor nit-pick...
>
> [...]
>> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c
>> index c7ee290..cea707a 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c
>> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c
> [...]
>> @@ -593,7 +590,7 @@ t16_emulate_pop_pc(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
>>   	bx_write_pc(pc, regs);
>>   }
>>
>> -static enum kprobe_insn __kprobes
>> +enum kprobe_insn __kprobes
>>   t16_decode_pop(kprobe_opcode_t insn, struct arch_specific_insn *asi,
>>   		struct decode_header *d)
>>   {
>
> The above removal of 'static' appears to be an unneeded accidental
> change?
>

Yes, that got lost during editing.  The change has been made.

-dl

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