From 3a872d89baae821a0f6e2c1055d4b47650661137 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2006 02:17:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Kprobes: Make kprobe modules more portable In an effort to make kprobe modules more portable, here is a patch that: o Introduces the "symbol_name" field to struct kprobe. The symbol->address resolution now happens in the kernel in an architecture agnostic manner. 64-bit powerpc users no longer have to specify the ".symbols" o Introduces the "offset" field to struct kprobe to allow a user to specify an offset into a symbol. o The legacy mechanism of specifying the kprobe.addr is still supported. However, if both the kprobe.addr and kprobe.symbol_name are specified, probe registration fails with an -EINVAL. o The symbol resolution code uses kallsyms_lookup_name(). So CONFIG_KPROBES now depends on CONFIG_KALLSYMS o Apparantly kprobe modules were the only legitimate out-of-tree user of the kallsyms_lookup_name() EXPORT. Now that the symbol resolution happens in-kernel, remove the EXPORT as suggested by Christoph Hellwig o Modify tcp_probe.c that uses the kprobe interface so as to make it work on multiple platforms (in its earlier form, the code wouldn't work, say, on powerpc) Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Signed-off-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86_64/Kconfig | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'arch/x86_64/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig index b87a19f0d584..0a5d8e659aa4 100644 --- a/arch/x86_64/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig @@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ source "arch/x86_64/oprofile/Kconfig" config KPROBES bool "Kprobes (EXPERIMENTAL)" - depends on EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES + depends on KALLSYMS && EXPERIMENTAL && MODULES help Kprobes allows you to trap at almost any kernel address and execute a callback function. register_kprobe() establishes -- cgit v1.2.3