Re: [RFC v2 7/7] kprobes: port to linker table

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 05:45:59AM -0800, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> kprobe makes use of two custom sections:
> 
> type       name                  begin                    end
> init.data _kprobe_blacklist __start_kprobe_blacklist	__stop_kprobe_blacklist
> text      .kprobes.text     __kprobes_text_start        __kprobes_text_end
> 
> Port these to the linker table generic solution. This lets
> us remove all the custom kprobe section declarations on the
> linker script.

I don't like this.  You create this "table" thing, which you use for
tables, and then you go and use it for something else - for kprobes
text which is not a table.  The kprobes text section is a section for
text which is not kprobe-able.

So, it seems to be a complete mis-nomer to me.  Maybe you can explain
the rationale here?

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