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Commit a5b7e1a8 authored by Oleg Nesterov's avatar Oleg Nesterov Committed by Ingo Molnar
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uprobes: Change prepare_uretprobe() to (try to) flush the dead frames



Change prepare_uretprobe() to flush the !arch_uretprobe_is_alive()
return_instance's. This is not needed correctness-wise, but can help
to avoid the failure caused by MAX_URETPROBE_DEPTH.

Note: in this case arch_uretprobe_is_alive() can be false
positive, the stack can grow after longjmp(). Unfortunately, the
kernel can't 100% solve this problem, but see the next patch.

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/20150721134023.GA4776@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 5eeb50de
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