[PATCH 1/2] uprobes: Pass probed vaddr to arch_uprobe_analyze_insn()

Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli ananth at in.ibm.com
Wed Jun 6 20:22:31 EST 2012


On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:40:15AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth at in.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 11:23:52AM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 14:49 +0530, Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli wrote:
> > > > +int arch_uprobe_analyze_insn(struct arch_uprobe *auprobe, struct mm_struct *mm, loff_t vaddr)
> > > 
> > > Don't we traditionally use unsigned long to pass vaddrs?
> > 
> > Right. But the vaddr we pass here is vma_info->vaddr which is loff_t.
> > I guess I should've made that clear in the patch description.
> 
> Why not fix struct vma_info's vaddr type?

Agreed. Will fix and send v2.

Ananth



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