Re: [PATCH 10/13] tracing/uprobes: Fetch args before reserving a ring buffer

[Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 03 Sep 2013 19:50:28 +0900, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
> (2013/09/03 14:44), Namhyung Kim wrote:
>> From: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
>> 
>> Fetching from user space should be done in a non-atomic context.  So
>> use a per-cpu buffer and copy its content to the ring buffer
>> atomically.  Note that we can migrate during accessing user memory
>> thus use a per-cpu mutex to protect concurrent accesses.
>> 
>> This is needed since we'll be able to fetch args from an user memory
>> which can be swapped out.  Before that uprobes could fetch args from
>> registers only which saved in a kernel space.
>> 
>> While at it, use __get_data_size() and store_trace_args() to reduce
>> code duplication.

[SNIP]

>> +	size = esize + tu->p.size + dsize;
>>  	event = trace_current_buffer_lock_reserve(&buffer, call->event.type,
>> -						  size + tu->p.size, 0, 0);
>> -	if (!event)
>> +						  size, 0, 0);
>> +	if (!event) {
>> +		mutex_unlock(mutex);
>>  		return;
>
> Just for a maintenance reason, I personally like to use "goto" in this case
> to fold up the mutex_unlock. :)
>
> Other parts are good for me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>

Thank you for review!

I'll change it as you said and fix atomic_dec bug that Jovi found.

Thanks,
Namhyung