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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2013-04-04 19:40:50 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2013-04-08 17:28:34 +0200
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kprobes: Move __kprobes definition into compiler.h
Currently, __kprobes is defined in linux/kprobes.h which is too big to be included in small or basic headers that want to make use of this simple attribute. So move __kprobes definition into linux/compiler.h in which other compiler attributes are defined. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> Cc: Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: Nadia Yvette Chambers <nyc@holomorphy.com> Cc: yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130404104049.21071.20908.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522 [ Improved the attribute explanation a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 10b8f23fab0f..92669cd182a6 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -351,4 +351,10 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect);
*/
#define ACCESS_ONCE(x) (*(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x))
+/* Ignore/forbid kprobes attach on very low level functions marked by this attribute: */
+#ifdef CONFIG_KPROBES
+# define __kprobes __attribute__((__section__(".kprobes.text")))
+#else
+# define __kprobes
+#endif
#endif /* __LINUX_COMPILER_H */