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author | Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> | 2012-05-29 21:29:14 +0200 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2012-06-06 17:15:24 +0200 |
commit | d790d34653ab20c74034902f5f0889bba807949a (patch) | |
tree | 05d475d4e0f22a2ae0815c77eff5fbe2665d8fd8 /lib/string_helpers.c | |
parent | 3a9ea0520f38def4a3915b91f82455b749f07d88 (diff) |
uprobes: Teach find_active_uprobe() to provide the "is_swbp" info
A separate patch to simplify the review, and for the
documentation.
The patch adds another "int *is_swbp" argument to
find_active_uprobe(), so far its only caller doesn't use this
info.
With this patch find_active_uprobe() additionally does:
- if find_vma() + ->vm_start check fails, *is_swbp = -EFAULT
- otherwise, if valid_vma() + find_uprobe() fails, it holds
the result of is_swbp_at_addr(), can be negative too. The
latter is only possible if we raced with another thread
which did munmap/etc after we hit this bp.
IOW. If find_active_uprobe(&is_swbp) returns NULL, the caller
can look at is_swbp to figure out whether the current insn is bp
or not, or detect the race with another thread if it is
negative.
Note: I think that performance-wise this change is fine. This
adds is_swbp_at_addr(), but only if we raced with
uprobe_unregister() or if we hit the "normal" int3 but this mm
has uprobes as well. And even in this case the slow
read_opcode() path is very unlikely, this insn recently
triggered do_int3(), __copy_from_user_inatomic() shouldn't fail
in the likely case.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <[email protected]>
Cc: Anton Arapov <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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