[PATCH 5/7] kprobes: Remove called_from argument

Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli ananth@in.ibm.com
Wed Nov 12 16:00:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 03:57:13PM -0500, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Remove called_from argument from kprobes which had been used for preventing
> self-refering of kernel module. However, since we don't keep module's refcount
> after registering kprobe any more, there is no reason to check that.
> 
> This patch also simplifies registering/unregistering functions because we don't
> need to use __builtin_return_address(0) which was passed to called_from.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kprobes.c |   70 +++++++++++--------------------------------------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 56 deletions(-)

Subject to inclusion of the two-liner I sent out earlier today on top of this one
(needed anyway to get this to compile)..

Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>



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