Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753980AbaF3Lg1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:36:27 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([103.22.144.67]:42153 "EHLO ozlabs.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752788AbaF3LgX (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Jun 2014 07:36:23 -0400 Message-ID: <1404128176.7888.1.camel@concordia> Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] [BUGFIX] kprobes: Fix "Failed to find blacklist" error on ia64 and ppc64 From: Michael Ellerman To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Tony Luck , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, sparse@chrisli.org, "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, akataria@vmware.com, anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com, "Suzuki K. Poulose" , Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergmann , Rusty Russell , Chris Wright , yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com, Thomas Gleixner , Tony Luck , Kevin Hao , Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, rdunlap@infradead.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , dl9pf@gmx.de, Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , "David S. Miller" Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2014 21:36:16 +1000 In-Reply-To: <53B0D61B.9010104@hitachi.com> References: <20140620022307.23075.55858.stgit@kbuild-fedora.novalocal> <53B0D61B.9010104@hitachi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.10.4-0ubuntu1 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 12:14 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > Ping? :) Yeah sorry. I started looking at this and got dragged into another mess. You seem to have duplicated the functionality of arch_deref_entry_point(), which was also added for kprobes, and for the same reason - ie. because some arches have strange function pointers. Is there some reason you can't use it? cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/