Re: [PATCH 0/3] uprobes: teach uprobes to clear MMF_HAS_UPROBES

From: Srikar Dronamraju
Date: Fri Sep 14 2012 - 13:16:48 EST


* Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> [2012-08-19 18:40:08]:

> Hello.
>
> On top of "kill uprobes_state->count, add MMF_HAS_UPROBES"
> series.
>
> Once again, I am not sure we really need this (except 1/3).
> Perhaps we could remove uprobe_munmap() instead and forget
> about the false-positive MMF_HAS_UPROBES's.
>
> OTOH, imho it looks a bit more clean this way. Please comment.


I am agree with the current approach.

The other approach could be to forget about MMF_RECALC_UPROBES and
uprobe_munmap() (essentially patch 2). But in patch 3 we will end up
calling mmf_recalc_uprobes() everytime a process with MM_HAS_UPROBES
hits a non-uprobe breakpoint.


>
> diffstat reports the code bloat, but note that the previous
> series removed more code.
>
> Oleg.
>
> include/linux/sched.h | 3 +-
> kernel/events/uprobes.c | 82 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> 2 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>

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