From: Srikar Dronamraju Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:26:46 +0000 (+0530) Subject: uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter X-Git-Tag: v3.5-rc1~102^2~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=682968e0c425c60f0dde37977e5beb2b12ddc4cc;p=pandora-kernel.git uprobes/core: Optimize probe hits with the help of a counter Maintain a per-mm counter: number of uprobes that are inserted on this process address space. This counter can be used at probe hit time to determine if we need a lookup in the uprobes rbtree. Everytime a probe gets inserted successfully, the probe count is incremented and everytime a probe gets removed, the probe count is decremented. The new uprobe_munmap hook ensures the count is correct on a unmap or remap of a region. We expect that once a uprobe_munmap() is called, the vma goes away. So uprobe_unregister() finding a probe to unregister would either mean unmap event hasnt occurred yet or a mmap event on the same executable file occured after a unmap event. Additionally, uprobe_mmap hook now also gets called: a. on every executable vma that is COWed at fork. b. a vma of interest is newly mapped; breakpoint insertion also happens at the required address. On process creation, make sure the probes count in the child is set correctly. Special cases that are taken care include: a. mremap b. VM_DONTCOPY vmas on fork() c. insertion/removal races in the parent during fork(). Signed-off-by: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: Jim Keniston Cc: Linux-mm Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo Cc: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Anton Arapov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120330182646.10018.85805.sendpatchset@srdronam.in.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed