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From: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sputrace : use marker_synchronize_unregister()
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:28:19 +1000
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Mathieu,

> We need a marker_synchronize_unregister() before the end of exit() to
> make sure every probe callers have exited the non preemptible section
> and thus are not executing the probe code anymore.

Looks good - added to spufs.git.

Cheers,


Jeremy