That var is useful for x86 recover_probed_instruction() for recovering ftraced instructions, to make it possible to determine whether the instruction has been converted to nop by ftrace.
I will merge this patch into next version of early kprobe series. Signed-off-by: Wang Nan <wangn...@huawei.com> --- include/linux/kprobes.h | 3 +++ kernel/kprobes.c | 4 +--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h index 2d78bbb..24eac73 100644 --- a/include/linux/kprobes.h +++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h @@ -288,6 +288,8 @@ extern const unsigned char *arch_kprobe_on_ftrace_get_old_insn(struct kprobe *kp const unsigned char *ftrace_nop, unsigned char *dest, size_t insn_size); extern void init_kprobes_on_ftrace(void); +extern bool kprobes_on_ftrace_initialized __read_mostly; + extern bool kprobe_fix_ftrace_make_nop(struct dyn_ftrace *rec); extern const unsigned char *kprobe_on_ftrace_get_old_insn(struct dyn_ftrace *rec, const unsigned char *ftrace_nop, unsigned char *dest, size_t insn_size); @@ -295,6 +297,7 @@ extern const unsigned char *kprobe_on_ftrace_get_old_insn(struct dyn_ftrace *rec static inline void init_kprobes_on_ftrace(void) { } +#define kprobes_on_ftrace_initialized true static inline bool kprobe_fix_ftrace_make_nop(struct dyn_ftrace *_unused) { diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c index 1ec8e6e..2d4e671 100644 --- a/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ static int kprobes_initialized; static int kprobes_blacklist_initialized; #if defined(CONFIG_KPROBES_ON_FTRACE) && defined(CONFIG_EARLY_KPROBES) -static bool kprobes_on_ftrace_initialized __read_mostly = false; -#else -# define kprobes_on_ftrace_initialized false +bool kprobes_on_ftrace_initialized __read_mostly = false; #endif bool kprobes_is_early(void) -- 1.8.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/