[PATCH v2 3/5] kprobes: Skip preparing optprobe if the probe is ftrace-based

Naveen N. Rao naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Feb 22 03:26:04 AEDT 2017


From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>

Skip preparing optprobe if the probe is ftrace-based, since anyway, it
must not be optimized (or already optimized by ftrace).

Tested-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat at kernel.org>
---
 kernel/kprobes.c | 11 +++++++++--
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index fbc7a70ff33e..7e93500dede7 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -708,13 +708,20 @@ static void kill_optimized_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 	arch_remove_optimized_kprobe(op);
 }
 
+static inline
+void __prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct optimized_kprobe *op, struct kprobe *p)
+{
+	if (!kprobe_ftrace(p))
+		arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(op, p);
+}
+
 /* Try to prepare optimized instructions */
 static void prepare_optimized_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 {
 	struct optimized_kprobe *op;
 
 	op = container_of(p, struct optimized_kprobe, kp);
-	arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(op, p);
+	__prepare_optimized_kprobe(op, p);
 }
 
 /* Allocate new optimized_kprobe and try to prepare optimized instructions */
@@ -728,7 +735,7 @@ static struct kprobe *alloc_aggr_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&op->list);
 	op->kp.addr = p->addr;
-	arch_prepare_optimized_kprobe(op, p);
+	__prepare_optimized_kprobe(op, p);
 
 	return &op->kp;
 }
-- 
2.11.0



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