[tip:perf/core] uprobes: Kill UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER flag

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Commit-ID:  bb929284be40cbbdb347690742557d708fd504a9
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/bb929284be40cbbdb347690742557d708fd504a9
Author:     Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:27:08 +0100
Committer:  Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
CommitDate: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 17:47:06 +0100

uprobes: Kill UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER flag

Simply remove UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER and the corresponding code.

It can only help if uprobe has a single consumer, and in fact
it is no longer needed after handler_chain() was changed to use
->register_rwsem, we simply can not race with uprobe_register().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/events/uprobes.c | 23 +++++------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/uprobes.c b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
index 4d04523..7ec2eb2 100644
--- a/kernel/events/uprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/events/uprobes.c
@@ -83,10 +83,8 @@ static atomic_t uprobe_events = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 
 /* Have a copy of original instruction */
 #define UPROBE_COPY_INSN	0
-/* Dont run handlers when first register/ last unregister in progress*/
-#define UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER	1
 /* Can skip singlestep */
-#define UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP	2
+#define UPROBE_SKIP_SSTEP	1
 
 struct uprobe {
 	struct rb_node		rb_node;	/* node in the rb tree */
@@ -475,9 +473,6 @@ static void handler_chain(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	struct uprobe_consumer *uc;
 
-	if (!test_bit(UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER, &uprobe->flags))
-		return;
-
 	down_read(&uprobe->register_rwsem);
 	for (uc = uprobe->consumers; uc; uc = uc->next)
 		uc->handler(uc, regs);
@@ -825,13 +820,8 @@ static int register_for_each_vma(struct uprobe *uprobe, bool is_register)
 
 static int __uprobe_register(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct uprobe_consumer *uc)
 {
-	int err;
-
 	consumer_add(uprobe, uc);
-	err = register_for_each_vma(uprobe, true);
-	if (!err) /* TODO: pointless unless the first consumer */
-		set_bit(UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER, &uprobe->flags);
-	return err;
+	return register_for_each_vma(uprobe, true);
 }
 
 static void __uprobe_unregister(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct uprobe_consumer *uc)
@@ -842,12 +832,9 @@ static void __uprobe_unregister(struct uprobe *uprobe, struct uprobe_consumer *u
 		return;
 
 	err = register_for_each_vma(uprobe, false);
-	if (!uprobe->consumers) {
-		clear_bit(UPROBE_RUN_HANDLER, &uprobe->flags);
-		/* TODO : cant unregister? schedule a worker thread */
-		if (!err)
-			delete_uprobe(uprobe);
-	}
+	/* TODO : cant unregister? schedule a worker thread */
+	if (!uprobe->consumers && !err)
+		delete_uprobe(uprobe);
 }
 
 /*
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