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authormao, bibo <bibo.mao@intel.com>2006-04-27 18:39:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-04-28 08:33:47 -0700
commitbf661987da6f5131475dfe3f51a98de4e2589ed3 (patch)
tree4db8c9692e6517dfe8190e3ee9451b8b713116e8 /arch
parent9539d4e79fae8482bc64ced03a46c7c6d711d19e (diff)
[PATCH] kprobe cleanup for VM_MASK judgement
When trap happens in user space, kprobe_exceptions_notify() funtion will skip it. This patch deletes some unnecessary code for VM_MASK judgement in eflags. Signed-off-by: bibo, mao <bibo.mao@intel.com> Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <hiramatu@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Acked-by: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Acked-by: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com> Cc: Yumiko Sugita <sugita@sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com> Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c9
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c
index 043f5292e70..6c93ddf0951 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -242,10 +242,6 @@ static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
kcb->kprobe_status = KPROBE_REENTER;
return 1;
} else {
- if (regs->eflags & VM_MASK) {
- /* We are in virtual-8086 mode. Return 0 */
- goto no_kprobe;
- }
if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
/* The breakpoint instruction was removed by
* another cpu right after we hit, no further
@@ -265,11 +261,6 @@ static int __kprobes kprobe_handler(struct pt_regs *regs)
p = get_kprobe(addr);
if (!p) {
- if (regs->eflags & VM_MASK) {
- /* We are in virtual-8086 mode. Return 0 */
- goto no_kprobe;
- }
-
if (*addr != BREAKPOINT_INSTRUCTION) {
/*
* The breakpoint instruction was removed right