Re: [PATCH v2 bpf-next 3/5] ftrace: introduce FTRACE_OPS_FL_SHARE_IPMODIFY

[Song Liu]

> On Jul 14, 2022, at 7:46 PM, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2022 02:04:33 +0000
> Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> What I'm suggesting is that a DIRECT ops will never set IPMODIFY.  
>> 
>> Aha, this the point I misunderstood. I thought DIRECT ops would always
>> set IPMODIFY (as it does now). 
> 
> My fault. I was probably not being clear when I was suggesting that
> DIRECT should *act* like an IPMODIFY, but never explicitly stated that
> it should not set the IPMODIFY flag.
> 
> The only reason it does today was to make it easy to act like an
> IPMODIFY (because it set the flag). But I'm now suggesting to get rid
> of that and just make DIRECT act like an IPMDOFIY as there can only be
> one of them on a function, but now we have some cases where DIRECT can
> work with IPMODIFY via the callbacks.

Thanks for the clarification. I think we are finally on the same page on
this. :)

Song