Re: [PATCH v7 3.2-rc2 9/30] uprobes: Background page replacement.

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Mon Nov 28 2011 - 09:14:11 EST


On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:38 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> +/**
> + * is_bkpt_insn - check if instruction is breakpoint instruction.
> + * @insn: instruction to be checked.
> + * Default implementation of is_bkpt_insn
> + * Returns true if @insn is a breakpoint instruction.
> + */
> +bool __weak is_bkpt_insn(u8 *insn)
> +{
> + return (insn[0] == UPROBES_BKPT_INSN);
> }

This seems wrong, UPROBES_BKPT_INSN basically defined to be of
uprobe_opcode_t type, not u8.

So:

bool __weak is_bkpt_insn(uprobe_opcode_t *insn)
{
return *insn == UPROBE_BKPT_INSN;
}

seems like the right way to write this.

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