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[POWERPC] Minor fault path optimization

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Call the kprobes pagefault handler directly instead of going through
the complex notifier chain.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-30 11:56:46 +01:00
committed by Paul Mackerras
parent eb609e52d1
commit 9f90b997de
4 changed files with 30 additions and 38 deletions
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arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
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@ -410,7 +410,7 @@ out:
return 1;
}
static int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
int __kprobes kprobe_fault_handler(struct pt_regs *regs, int trapnr)
{
struct kprobe *cur = kprobe_running();
struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb = get_kprobe_ctlblk();
@ -495,14 +495,6 @@ int __kprobes kprobe_exceptions_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
if (post_kprobe_handler(args->regs))
ret = NOTIFY_STOP;
break;
case DIE_PAGE_FAULT:
/* kprobe_running() needs smp_processor_id() */
preempt_disable();
if (kprobe_running() &&
kprobe_fault_handler(args->regs, args->trapnr))
ret = NOTIFY_STOP;
preempt_enable();
break;
default:
break;
}