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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Kprobes blacklist: Conditionally add x86-specific symbols
On 05:23 Fri 08 Mar     , Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2013/03/07 19:44), oskar.andero@sonymobile.com wrote:
> > From: Bjorn Davidsson <bjorn.davidsson@sonymobile.com>
> >
> > The kprobes blacklist contains x86-specific symbols.
> > Looking for these in kallsyms takes unnecessary time
> > during startup on non-X86 platform.
> > Added #ifdef CONFIG_X86 around them.
>
> Right. however, it might be better break that into
> common and arch-specific lists, because there may be
> other arch-specific non-probe-able functions on each
> architecture...

Ok. You mean adding, for instance, a kprobe_blacklist_arch[] in arch/x86
somewhere or did you have something else in mind? I guess we preferably want
to get rid of the #ifdef.

> Would you know some other black points on your platform?

Not that we are aware of.

> Thank you,
>
> >
> > Reviewed-by: Radovan Lekanovic <radovan.lekanovic@sonymobile.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Björn Davidsson <bjorn.davidsson@sonymobile.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Oskar Andero <oskar.andero@sonymobile.com>
> > ---
> > kernel/kprobes.c | 2 ++
> > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> > index e35be53..8c3796f 100644
> > --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> > +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> > @@ -95,9 +95,11 @@ static raw_spinlock_t *kretprobe_table_lock_ptr(unsigned long hash)
> > */
> > static struct kprobe_blackpoint kprobe_blacklist[] = {
> > {"preempt_schedule",},
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86
> > {"native_get_debugreg",},
> > {"irq_entries_start",},
> > {"common_interrupt",},
> > +#endif
> > {"mcount",}, /* mcount can be called from everywhere */
> > {NULL} /* Terminator */
> > };
> >
>
>
> --
> Masami HIRAMATSU
> IT Management Research Dept. Linux Technology Center
> Hitachi, Ltd., Yokohama Research Laboratory
> E-mail: masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com
>
>

-Oskar
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