[PATCH] Notify page fault call chain

With this patch Kprobes now registers for page fault notifications only when
their is an active probe registered.  Once all the active probes are
unregistered their is no need to be notified of page faults and kprobes
unregisters itself from the page fault notifications.  Hence we will have ZERO
side effects when no probes are active.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

5 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h b/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h
index 57d157c5cf89..0730a20f6db8 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/kprobes.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
 
 #define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)    (kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
+#define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 0
 
 void arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
 void kretprobe_trampoline(void);
diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h b/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h
index 8c0fc227f0fb..2418a787c405 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/kprobes.h
@@ -82,6 +82,7 @@ struct kprobe_ctlblk {
 #define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)    (kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
 
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
+#define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 1
 
 #define SLOT0_OPCODE_SHIFT      (37)
 #define SLOT1_p1_OPCODE_SHIFT   (37 - (64-46))
diff --git a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
index f466bc804f41..2d0af52c823d 100644
--- a/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-powerpc/kprobes.h
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@ typedef unsigned int kprobe_opcode_t;
                         IS_TWI(instr) || IS_TDI(instr))
 
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
+#define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 1
+
 void kretprobe_trampoline(void);
 extern void arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
 
diff --git a/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h b/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h
index e9bb26f770ed..15065af566c2 100644
--- a/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-sparc64/kprobes.h
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ typedef u32 kprobe_opcode_t;
 
 #define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)    (kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
 #define arch_remove_kprobe(p)   do {} while (0)
+#define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 0
 
 /* Architecture specific copy of original instruction*/
 struct arch_specific_insn {
diff --git a/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h b/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h
index 98a1e95ddb98..d36febd9bb18 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86_64/kprobes.h
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ typedef u8 kprobe_opcode_t;
 
 #define JPROBE_ENTRY(pentry)    (kprobe_opcode_t *)pentry
 #define ARCH_SUPPORTS_KRETPROBES
+#define  ARCH_INACTIVE_KPROBE_COUNT 1
 
 void kretprobe_trampoline(void);
 extern void arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);