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Commit 7b868e48 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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uprobes/x86: Reimplement arch_uretprobe_is_alive()



Add the x86 specific version of arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
helper. It returns true if the stack frame mangled by
prepare_uretprobe() is still on stack. So if it returns false,
we know that the probed function has already returned.

We add the new return_instance->stack member and change the
generic code to initialize it in prepare_uretprobe, but it
should be equally useful for other architectures.

TODO: this assumes that the probed application can't use
      multiple stacks (say sigaltstack). We will try to improve
      this logic later.

Tested-by: default avatarPratyush Anand <panand@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarOleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSrikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarAnton Arapov <arapov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150721134018.GA4766@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 97da8976
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