Re: [PATCH -tip v6 04/11] kprobes: Jump optimization sysctl interface

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Sat Nov 28 2009 - 11:13:01 EST


Eric W. Biederman wrote:
Masami Hiramatsu<mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

Add /proc/sys/debug/kprobes-optimization sysctl which enables and disables
kprobes jump optimization on the fly for debugging.

Changes in v6:
- Update comments and coding style.


This will break when it hits the linux-next. As ctl_name has been
removed in the sysctl tree. Not setting ctl_name is equivalent
to setting ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED. It is 0 in both cases.
So you can safely drop touches of ctl_name.

Ideally you would also call register_sysctl_paths from kernel/kprobes.c
and not add to the ifdef horror that is kernel/sysctl.c but that
is probably more trouble than it is worth right now. One way or
another there is going to be at least a minor conflict when this code
merges with the sysctl tree.

Thanks for telling me!
OK, so I'll remove that line.

Thank you,

#include<asm/uaccess.h>
#include<asm/processor.h>
@@ -1621,6 +1622,18 @@ static struct ctl_table debug_table[] = {
.proc_handler = proc_dointvec
},
#endif
+#if defined(CONFIG_OPTPROBES)
+ {
+ .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please remove this line.
+ .procname = "kprobes-optimization",
+ .data =&sysctl_kprobes_optimization,
+ .maxlen = sizeof(int),
+ .mode = 0644,
+ .proc_handler = proc_kprobes_optimization_handler,
+ .extra1 =&zero,
+ .extra2 =&one,
+ },
+#endif
{ .ctl_name = 0 }
};


Eric
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Hitachi Computer Products (America), Inc.
Software Solutions Division

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