* Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]> [2015-07-07 03:22:58]:

> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>


Looks good to me.

Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <[email protected]>
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Thanks and Regards
Srikar Dronamraju

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