Re: [PATCH v5 07/16] ARM: Remove use of struct kprobe from genericprobes code

From: Jon Medhurst (Tixy)
Date: Mon Feb 03 2014 - 09:57:41 EST


On Thu, 2014-01-23 at 15:05 -0500, David Long wrote:
> From: "David A. Long" <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Change the generic ARM probes code to pass in the opcode and architecture-specific
> structure separately instead of using struct kprobe, so we do not pollute
> code being used only for uprobes or other non-kprobes instruction
> interpretation.
>
> Signed-off-by: David A. Long <dave.long@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

One minor nit-pick...

[...]
> diff --git a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c
> index c7ee290..cea707a 100644
> --- a/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c
> +++ b/arch/arm/kernel/kprobes-thumb.c
[...]
> @@ -593,7 +590,7 @@ t16_emulate_pop_pc(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)
> bx_write_pc(pc, regs);
> }
>
> -static enum kprobe_insn __kprobes
> +enum kprobe_insn __kprobes
> t16_decode_pop(kprobe_opcode_t insn, struct arch_specific_insn *asi,
> struct decode_header *d)
> {

The above removal of 'static' appears to be an unneeded accidental
change?

--
Tixy

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