2014-01-15 16:44:18

by David Long

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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 07/16] ARM: Remove use of struct kprobe from generic probes code

On 12/20/13 08:55, Jon Medhurst (Tixy) wrote:
> On Sun, 2013-12-15 at 23:08 -0500, David Long wrote:
>> From: "David A. Long" <[email protected]>
>>
>> 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 <[email protected]>
>> ---
>> arch/arm/include/asm/probes.h | 9 +-
>> arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-arm.c | 77 ++++++-------
>> arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-common.c | 42 ++++---
>> arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c | 239 +++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>> arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.c | 2 +-
>> arch/arm/kernel/kprobes.h | 2 +-
>> arch/arm/kernel/probes-arm.c | 33 +++---
>> arch/arm/kernel/probes-arm.h | 29 ++---
>> arch/arm/kernel/probes-thumb.c | 18 ++-
>> arch/arm/kernel/probes-thumb.h | 51 ---------
>> arch/arm/kernel/probes.c | 14 ++-
>> arch/arm/kernel/probes.h | 8 +-
>> 12 files changed, 246 insertions(+), 278 deletions(-)
>
> Looks OK to me, though it looks like this patch includes some header
> file cleanups that should have been part of the previous patch? I.e. all
> the changes to probes-thumb.h and probes-arm.h. And also the
> re-application of 'static' to functions in kprobes-thumb.c and
> kprobes-arm.c.
>
> I'm not sure it's worth the hassle of trying to unpick those changes
> though, it doesn't impact the end result or bisect-bility.
>

I moved the changes around as suggested.

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