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Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 16:10:04 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86/mm: Sync all vmalloc mappings before text_poke()
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:07:31AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> Talking with Mathieu about this on IRC, he pointed out that my code does
> have a vzalloc() that is called:
> 
> in trace_pid_write()
> 
> 	pid_list->pids = vzalloc((pid_list->pid_max + 7) >> 3);
> 
> This is done when -P1,2 is on the trace-cmd command line.

Yeah, I was guessing something like this, init_mm has a mapping which
poking_mm has not. I currently try to reproduce this on one of my
machines.

Regards,

	Joerg