[DTrace-devel] [PATCH] test: use a more stable data item

Nick Alcock nick.alcock at oracle.com
Fri Apr 26 11:39:49 UTC 2024


On 26 Apr 2024, Kris Van Hees said:

> The runtime bounds check exception for dynamically sized arrays in
> kernel structures depended on a kernel symbol that is not quite as
> stable as expected.  Use a member from the mm_struct instead.

Your assumption that it was analyzed in any way for stability is
touching, but inaccurate :P

Pure gut feeling replaced with something a bit more obviously sorta
stable (at least it needs more work to massively change it upstream,
and massive mm changes are fairly rare):

> Signed-off-by: Kris Van Hees <kris.van.hees at oracle.com>

Reviewed-by: Nick Alcock <nick.alcock at oracle.com>



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