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

[Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2012 at 05:14:23PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> * Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org> [2012-06-06 11:40:15]:
> 
> > 
> > * 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?
> > 
> 
> Calculating and comparing vaddr results either uses variables of type loff_t. 
> To avoid typecasting and avoid overflow at each of these places, we used
> loff_t. 
> 
> Ananth, install_breakpoint() already has a variable of type addr of type
> unsigned long.  Why dont you use addr instead of vaddr. 

Ok, makes sense. I'll change it in v2.

Ananth