On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 01:42:12PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 04:31:16PM -0700, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > This has the (small) potential to get a false positive on a pointer to a > > data segment in a module. However since we also use the frame pointer > > chain as initial sanity check I think the danger of this is very low. > > > > So this has come up several times; and the answer has always been, why > not make the __module_address() thing a rb-tree instead of a linear > loop. So I suppose I'll ask that again, why not?
Why do things complicated, if they can be done simple too? -Andi -- [email protected] -- Speaking for myself only -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
