On Tue, 2014-07-01 at 11:21 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > (2014/06/30 20:36), Michael Ellerman wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-06-30 at 12:14 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote: > >> Ping? :) > > > > Yeah sorry. I started looking at this and got dragged into another mess. > > > > You seem to have duplicated the functionality of arch_deref_entry_point(), > > which was also added for kprobes, and for the same reason - ie. because some > > arches have strange function pointers. Is there some reason you can't use > > it? > > Ah, right! Hmm, it seems some more work to update it. but basically, we can > do. > BTW, is there any other users who need to access the actual function entry > (for > kallsyms case)?
Not that I'm aware of. We have had function descriptors on 64-bit powerpc for ever, so in theory by now we should have already found any cases where we need that sort of wrapper. cheers -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/