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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/events/uprobes.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/events/uprobes.c | 15 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c index 51a7f535ff96..b886a5e7d4ff 100644 --- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c +++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c @@ -73,6 +73,17 @@ struct uprobe { struct inode *inode; /* Also hold a ref to inode */ loff_t offset; unsigned long flags; + + /* + * The generic code assumes that it has two members of unknown type + * owned by the arch-specific code: + * + * insn - copy_insn() saves the original instruction here for + * arch_uprobe_analyze_insn(). + * + * ixol - potentially modified instruction to execute out of + * line, copied to xol_area by xol_get_insn_slot(). + */ struct arch_uprobe arch; }; @@ -86,6 +97,10 @@ struct return_instance { }; /* + * Execute out of line area: anonymous executable mapping installed + * by the probed task to execute the copy of the original instruction + * mangled by set_swbp(). + * * On a breakpoint hit, thread contests for a slot. It frees the * slot after singlestep. Currently a fixed number of slots are * allocated. |