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Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:31:44 +0530
From: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 12/26]   Uprobes: Handle breakpoint
 and Singlestep
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* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2011-09-26 15:59:13]:

> On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 17:32 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > 						Hence provide some extra
> > + * time (by way of synchronize_sched() for breakpoint hit threads to acquire
> > + * the uprobes_treelock before the uprobe is removed from the rbtree. 
> 
> 'Some extra time' doesn't make me all warm an fuzzy inside, but instead
> screams we fudge around a race condition.

The extra time provided is sufficient to avoid the race. So will modify
it to mean "sufficient" instead of "some".   

Would that suffice?

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar

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