linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip v8 17/26] notifier: Use NOKPROBE

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Date:	Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:12:27 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	Sandeepa Prabhu <sandeepa.prabhu@...aro.org>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	fche@...hat.com, mingo@...hat.com, systemtap@...rceware.org,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip v8 17/26] notifier: Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro in
 notifier

On Wed, 05 Mar 2014 21:00:42 +0900
Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com> wrote:

> Use NOKPROBE_SYMBOL macro to protect functions from
> kprobes instead of __kprobes annotation in notifier.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@...achi.com>

>  /*
>   *	Blocking notifier chain routines.  All access to the chain is
> @@ -527,7 +530,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_init_notifier_head);
>  
>  static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(die_chain);
>  
> -int notrace __kprobes notify_die(enum die_val val, const char *str,
> +int notrace notify_die(enum die_val val, const char *str,

Hmm, I wonder why notify_die() is marked notrace? But that's unrelated
to this patch.

Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>

-- Steve

>  	       struct pt_regs *regs, long err, int trap, int sig)
>  {
>  	struct die_args args = {
> @@ -540,6 +543,7 @@ int notrace __kprobes notify_die(enum die_val val, const char *str,
>  	};
>  	return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&die_chain, val, &args);
>  }
> +NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(notify_die);
>  
>  int register_die_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
>  {
> 

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