kprobes: indirectly call kprobe_target
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:41:47 +0000 (14:41 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:59:20 +0000 (15:59 -0800)
Call kprobe_target indirectly.  This prevents gcc to unroll a noinline
function in caller function.

I ported patches which had been discussed on
http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3542

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
kernel/test_kprobes.c

index 06b6395b45b25dcde1a2dd3e1075bce406742ba4..9c0127ead6abe6986de7a374bd7e332a3584df17 100644 (file)
 
 static u32 rand1, preh_val, posth_val, jph_val;
 static int errors, handler_errors, num_tests;
+static u32 (*target)(u32 value);
 
 static noinline u32 kprobe_target(u32 value)
 {
-       /*
-        * gcc ignores noinline on some architectures unless we stuff
-        * sufficient lard into the function. The get_kprobe() here is
-        * just for that.
-        *
-        * NOTE: We aren't concerned about the correctness of get_kprobe()
-        * here; hence, this call is neither under !preempt nor with the
-        * kprobe_mutex held. This is fine(tm)
-        */
-       if (get_kprobe((void *)0xdeadbeef))
-               printk(KERN_INFO "Kprobe smoke test: probe on 0xdeadbeef!\n");
-
        return (value / div_factor);
 }
 
@@ -74,7 +63,7 @@ static int test_kprobe(void)
                return ret;
        }
 
-       ret = kprobe_target(rand1);
+       ret = target(rand1);
        unregister_kprobe(&kp);
 
        if (preh_val == 0) {
@@ -121,7 +110,7 @@ static int test_jprobe(void)
                return ret;
        }
 
-       ret = kprobe_target(rand1);
+       ret = target(rand1);
        unregister_jprobe(&jp);
        if (jph_val == 0) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "Kprobe smoke test failed: "
@@ -177,7 +166,7 @@ static int test_kretprobe(void)
                return ret;
        }
 
-       ret = kprobe_target(rand1);
+       ret = target(rand1);
        unregister_kretprobe(&rp);
        if (krph_val != rand1) {
                printk(KERN_ERR "Kprobe smoke test failed: "
@@ -193,6 +182,8 @@ int init_test_probes(void)
 {
        int ret;
 
+       target = kprobe_target;
+
        do {
                rand1 = random32();
        } while (rand1 <= div_factor);