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 --- kernel/kallsyms.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/kallsyms.c') diff --git a/kernel/kallsyms.c b/kernel/kallsyms.c index ab16a5a4cfe..342bca62c49 100644 --- a/kernel/kallsyms.c +++ b/kernel/kallsyms.c @@ -154,7 +154,6 @@ unsigned long kallsyms_lookup_name(const char *name) } return module_kallsyms_lookup_name(name); } -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kallsyms_lookup_name); /* * Lookup an address -- cgit v1.2.3-18-g5258