Re: [PATCH 4/5] x86: don't use asm-generic/ptrace.h

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Wed May 01 2019 - 17:48:28 EST



* Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:

> Doing the indirection through macros for the regs accessors just
> makes them harder to read, so implement the helpers directly.
>
> Note that only the helpers actually used are implemented now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
> index 8a7fc0cca2d1..9b81ef539eb3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ptrace.h
> @@ -98,7 +98,6 @@ struct cpuinfo_x86;
> struct task_struct;
>
> extern unsigned long profile_pc(struct pt_regs *regs);
> -#define profile_pc profile_pc
>
> extern unsigned long
> convert_ip_to_linear(struct task_struct *child, struct pt_regs *regs);
> @@ -175,11 +174,31 @@ static inline unsigned long kernel_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
> }
> #endif
>
> -#define GET_IP(regs) ((regs)->ip)
> -#define GET_FP(regs) ((regs)->bp)
> -#define GET_USP(regs) ((regs)->sp)
> +static inline unsigned long instruction_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> + return regs->ip;
> +}
> +static inline void instruction_pointer_set(struct pt_regs *regs,

Nit: missing newline between inline functions.

> + unsigned long val)
> +{
> + regs->ip = val;
> +}
> +
> +static inline unsigned long frame_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> + return regs->bp;
> +}
>
> -#include <asm-generic/ptrace.h>
> +static inline unsigned long user_stack_pointer(struct pt_regs *regs)
> +{
> + return regs->sp;
> +}
> +
> +static inline void user_stack_pointer_set(struct pt_regs *regs,
> + unsigned long val)
> +{
> + regs->sp = val;
> +}

Other than that:

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Ingo