Re: [Dle-develop] [PATCH -tip 3/3] kprobes: cleanup: use list instead of hlist for insn_pages

[Ingo M. <mi...@el...>]

* Masami Hiramatsu <mhi...@re...> wrote:

> Use struct list instead of struct hlist for managing insn_pages, 
> because insn_pages doesn't use hash table.

>  struct kprobe_insn_page {
> -	struct hlist_node hlist;
> +	struct list_head list;

Hm, you know that this increases the size of kprobe_insn_page by 4/8 
bytes, right?

hlists are not just used for hashes - but also when we want a more 
compact / smaller list head.

How many kprobe_insn_page's can be allocated in the system, 
maximally?

	Ingo