[PATCH 2/5] powerpc/kprobes: Have optimized_callback() use preempt_enable()

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Mon Nov 7 21:18:40 AEDT 2022


On Fri Oct 21, 2022 at 3:28 AM AEST, Naveen N. Rao wrote:
> Similar to x86 commit 2e62024c265aa6 ("kprobes/x86: Use preempt_enable()
> in optimized_callback()"), change powerpc optprobes to use
> preempt_enable() rather than preempt_enable_no_resched() since powerpc
> also removed irq disabling for optprobes in commit f72180cc93a2c6
> ("powerpc/kprobes: Do not disable interrupts for optprobes and
> kprobes_on_ftrace").

Looks okay. Even if we did have irqs disabled here, we should just use
preempt_enable(), which nests properly inside or outside local irqs.

Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>

>
> Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Naveen N. Rao <naveen.n.rao at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
> index 3b1c2236cbee57..004fae2044a3e0 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/optprobes.c
> @@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ static void optimized_callback(struct optimized_kprobe *op,
>  		__this_cpu_write(current_kprobe, NULL);
>  	}
>  
> -	preempt_enable_no_resched();
> +	preempt_enable();
>  }
>  NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(optimized_callback);
>  
> -- 
> 2.38.0



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