Subject: [PATCH v5 06/10] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore)

From: [email-masked] (Oleg Nesterov)
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 21:51:06 +0200

I have to admit that after a quick glance I can't understand this patch
at all... I'll try to read it again tomorrow, but could you at least explain
how find_node_in_range/build_probe_list can work if off_type==REF_CTR_OFFSET?

On 06/28, Ravi Bangoria wrote:
>
> -find_node_in_range(struct inode *inode, loff_t min, loff_t max)
> +find_node_in_range(struct inode *inode, int off_type, loff_t min, loff_t max)
>  {
>  	struct rb_node *n = uprobes_tree.rb_node;
>  
>  	while (n) {
>  		struct uprobe *u = rb_entry(n, struct uprobe, rb_node);
> +		loff_t offset = uprobe_get_offset(u, off_type);
>  
>  		if (inode < u->inode) {
>  			n = n->rb_left;
>  		} else if (inode > u->inode) {
>  			n = n->rb_right;
>  		} else {
> -			if (max < u->offset)
> +			if (max < offset)
>  				n = n->rb_left;
> -			else if (min > u->offset)
> +			else if (min > offset)
>  				n = n->rb_right;
>  			else
>  				break;

To simplify, lets forget about uprobe->inode (which acts as a key too). So uprobes_tree
is a binary tree sorted by uprobe->offset key and that is why the binary search works.

But it is not sorted by uprobe->ref_ctr_offset. So for example n->rb_left can have the
n->ref_ctr_offset key that is greater than the n's ref_ctr_offset. So how we can use the
binary search if REF_CTR_OFFSET?

I must have missed something, I assume you tested this patch and it works somehow...

Oleg.