Re: [PATCH] kprobe: increase kprobe_hash_table size

[Masami Hiramatsu]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:33:49 -0500 Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Not really. Hmm, I have to investigate more on this problem.
> 
> OK ;)
> 
> Meanwhile, how does this look?

Great! That is enough acceptable.
Thank you very much!


> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> We only need the cacheline padding on SMP kernels.  Saves 6k:
> 
>    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
>    5713     388    2632    8733    221d kernel/kprobes.o
>    5713     388    8840   14941    3a5d kernel/kprobes.o
> 
> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> 
>  kernel/kprobes.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff -puN kernel/kprobes.c~a kernel/kprobes.c
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c~a
> +++ a/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ static bool kprobe_enabled;
>  DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);		/* Protects kprobe_table */
>  static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, kprobe_instance) = NULL;
>  static struct {
> -	spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned;
> +	spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
>  } kretprobe_table_locks[KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE];
>  
>  static spinlock_t *kretprobe_table_lock_ptr(unsigned long hash)
> _
> 

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx

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