Re: [PATCHSET 00/13] tracing/uprobes: Add support for more fetch methods (v6)

From: Namhyung Kim
Date: Tue Nov 12 2013 - 02:49:42 EST


Hi Oleg,

On Fri, 8 Nov 2013 18:00:17 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> On 11/07, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 19:24:08 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>> >
>> > Note that instruction_pointer_set() is not really nice in any case,
>> > this can obviously confuse FETCH_MTD_reg("ip").
>>
>> Yes.
>>
>> >
>> > But lets ignore this. The solution is simple, we can pass/use this
>> > info via current->utask. We can either add the new member, or add
>> > a union. Or simply reuse xol_vaddr. Doesn't matter.
>>
>> Okay, I'll take a look.
>
> I guess we need the union in uprobe_task anyway... I'll send the patch
> soon.
>
> Until we have the new members in uprobe_task, you can reuse utask->vaddr,
> this is safe.
>
> IOW, you can use current->utask->vaddr instead of regs->ip (as we did
> in the previous discussin) to pass the necessary info to ->fetch().

Thanks for the info!
Namhyung
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