Re: [PATCH v4 14/15] kprobes: remove dependency on CONFIG_MODULES

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Hi Masami,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2024 at 06:16:15AM +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2024 19:00:50 +0300
> Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Mike Rapoport (IBM)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > kprobes depended on CONFIG_MODULES because it has to allocate memory for
> > code.
> > 
> > Since code allocations are now implemented with execmem, kprobes can be
> > enabled in non-modular kernels.
> > 
> > Add #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE guards for the code dealing with kprobes inside
> > modules, make CONFIG_KPROBES select CONFIG_EXECMEM and drop the
> > dependency of CONFIG_KPROBES on CONFIG_MODULES.
> 
> Thanks for this work, but this conflicts with the latest fix in v6.9-rc4.
> Also, can you use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES) instead of #ifdefs in
> function body? We have enough dummy functions for that, so it should
> not make a problem.

I'll rebase and will try to reduce ifdefery where possible.

> Thank you,
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  arch/Kconfig                |  2 +-
> >  kernel/kprobes.c            | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
> >  kernel/trace/trace_kprobe.c | 11 ++++++++++
> >  3 files changed, 37 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> > 
> 
> -- 
> Masami Hiramatsu

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.




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