From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.1 (2015-04-28) on archive.lwn.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.8 required=5.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.1 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by archive.lwn.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C80967D043 for ; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 02:36:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754192AbeFUCf4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:35:56 -0400 Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.156.1]:49496 "EHLO mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754172AbeFUCfz (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:35:55 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098396.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w5L2Xgbr139304 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:35:55 -0400 Received: from e06smtp02.uk.ibm.com (e06smtp02.uk.ibm.com [195.75.94.98]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2jr23wj75f-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:35:54 -0400 Received: from localhost by e06smtp02.uk.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! 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Violators will be prosecuted; (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256/256) Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:35:48 +0100 Received: from d06av22.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (d06av22.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com [9.149.105.58]) by b06cxnps4076.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id w5L2Zlwg27983924 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL); Thu, 21 Jun 2018 02:35:47 GMT Received: from d06av22.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id E34CD4C050; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:26:45 +0100 (BST) Received: from d06av22.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BB114C046; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:26:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from [9.77.204.211] (unknown [9.77.204.211]) by d06av22.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP; Thu, 21 Jun 2018 03:26:38 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Uprobes: Support SDT markers having reference count (semaphore) To: Steven Rostedt Cc: oleg@redhat.com, srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mhiramat@kernel.org, peterz@infradead.org, mingo@redhat.com, acme@kernel.org, alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com, jolsa@redhat.com, namhyung@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, corbet@lwn.net, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, ananth@linux.vnet.ibm.com, alexis.berlemont@gmail.com, naveen.n.rao@linux.vnet.ibm.com, Ravi Bangoria References: <20180606083344.31320-1-ravi.bangoria@linux.ibm.com> <20180620123750.79811466@gandalf.local.home> From: Ravi Bangoria Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:05:38 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.8.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20180620123750.79811466@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 x-cbid: 18062102-0008-0000-0000-0000024A094F X-IBM-AV-DETECTION: SAVI=unused REMOTE=unused XFE=unused x-cbparentid: 18062102-0009-0000-0000-000021B05D3F Message-Id: X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10434:,, definitions=2018-06-21_01:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=outbound_notspam policy=outbound score=0 priorityscore=1501 malwarescore=0 suspectscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1015 lowpriorityscore=0 mlxscore=0 impostorscore=0 mlxlogscore=999 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1805220000 definitions=main-1806210026 Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org On 06/20/2018 10:07 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2018 14:03:37 +0530 > Ravi Bangoria wrote: > >> Why RFC again: >> >> This series is different from earlier versions[1]. Earlier series >> implemented this feature in trace_uprobe while this has implemented >> the logic in core uprobe. Few reasons for this: >> 1. One of the major reason was the deadlock between uprobe_lock and >> mm->mmap inside trace_uprobe_mmap(). That deadlock was not easy to fix >> because mm->mmap is not in control of trace_uprobe_mmap() and it has >> to take uprobe_lock to loop over trace_uprobe list. More details can >> be found at[2]. With this new approach, there are no deadlocks found >> so far. >> 2. Many of the core uprobe function and data-structures needs to be >> exported to make earlier implementation simple. With this new approach, >> reference counter logic is been implemented in core uprobe and thus >> no need to export anything. > > > A quick scan of the patches, I don't see anything controversial with > them. Unless others have any qualms about it, I say repost as non RFC, > and we can start doing a more thorough review. Yes, I've posted it: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/6/19/1324 I've copied you as well :) Please have a look. Thanks, Ravi -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html