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SubjectRe: [PATCH 11/13] tracing/kprobes: Add priv argument to fetch functions
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On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 17:09:14 +0100, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
> See my replies to 0/13. Lets assume that you agree that get_user_vaddr()
> doesn't need tu->inode.

Okay.

>
> On 10/29, Namhyung Kim wrote:
>>
>> This argument is for passing private data structure to each fetch
>> function and will be used by uprobes.
>
> In this case, why do we need this "void *priv"? It actually becomes
> "bool need_addr_translation".

Right. I added it because the deref method is used for both of kprobes
and uprobes and it only needed for uprobes. And I thought if we need
something for kprobes later, it can be reused so make it general.

>
> Can't we avoid it? Can't we just add FETCH_MTD_memory_notranslate ?
> kprobes should use the same methods for FETCH_MTD_memory*, uprobes
> should obviously adjust the addr in FETCH_MTD_memory.
>
> Then (afaics) we need a single change in parse_probe_arg(),
>
> - dprm->fetch = t->fetch[FETCH_MTD_memory];
> + dprm->fetch = t->fetch[FETCH_MTD_memory_notranslate];
>
> Yes, this will blow *probes_fetch_type_table[], but looks simpler.

Looks good to me too, thanks! :)

>
> And. This way it would be simple to teach parse_probe_arg('@') to use
> _notranslate, say, "@=addr" or whatever.

Yeah, it'll be useful at least for fetching data in anon pages.

Thanks,
Namhyung


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