Re: [PATCH v5 5/6] kprobes: Use text_alloc() and text_free()

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakki...@linux.intel.com> wrote:

> Use text_alloc() and text_free() instead of module_alloc() and
> module_memfree() when an arch provides them.
> 
> Cc: linux...@kvack.org
> Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhira...@kernel.org>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakki...@linux.intel.com>
> ---
>  kernel/kprobes.c | 9 +++++++++
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 4e46d96d4e16..611fcda9f6bf 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
>  #include <asm/cacheflush.h>
>  #include <asm/errno.h>
>  #include <linux/uaccess.h>
> +#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
>  
>  #define KPROBE_HASH_BITS 6
>  #define KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE (1 << KPROBE_HASH_BITS)
> @@ -111,12 +112,20 @@ enum kprobe_slot_state {
>  
>  void __weak *alloc_insn_page(void)
>  {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC
> +     return text_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
> +#else
>       return module_alloc(PAGE_SIZE);
> +#endif
>  }
>  
>  void __weak free_insn_page(void *page)
>  {
> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_TEXT_ALLOC
> +     text_free(page);
> +#else
>       module_memfree(page);
> +#endif
>  }

I've read the observations in the other threads, but this #ifdef 
jungle is silly, it's a de-facto open coded text_alloc() with a 
module_alloc() fallback...

Thanks,

        Ingo