Re: [for-next][PATCH 12/16] kprobes: Initialize kprobes at postcore_initcall

[Catalin Marinas]

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:00:10AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 13:42:02 +0100
> Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > I agree with Masami, that the selftest actually caught a bug here. I
> > > think the arch code may need to change as the purpose of Masami's
> > > changes was to enable kprobes earlier in boot. The selftest failing
> > > means that an early kprobe will fail too.  
> > 
> > I just got back from holiday and catching up with emails. Do I still
> > need to merge the arm64 fix making the debug initialisation a
> > core_initcall()?
> > 
> > Can we actually get kprobes invoked before init_kprobes() has been
> > called?
> 
> Bah, I can't remember everything that we discussed. I thought there was
> some more patches that obsoleted my work around. Everything has been
> pushed to Linus, can you see if the upstream still has issues for you?

Upstream is fine since you reverted the postcore_initcall(init_kprobes)
change and used subsys_initcall() instead. So I don't think we need any
arch changes.

-- 
Catalin