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From: tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ananth@in.ibm.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, jkenisto@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de,
	mhiramat@redhat.com, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:tracing/urgent] kprobes: No need to unlock kprobe_insn_mutex
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 21:40:06 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-4ca2efad573aef3cad6157bb7c0036435f87a329@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090630210809.17851.28781.stgit@localhost.localdomain>

Commit-ID:  4ca2efad573aef3cad6157bb7c0036435f87a329
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/4ca2efad573aef3cad6157bb7c0036435f87a329
Author:     Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
AuthorDate: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:08:09 -0400
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 23:21:58 +0200

kprobes: No need to unlock kprobe_insn_mutex

Remove needless kprobe_insn_mutex unlocking during safety check
in garbage collection, because if someone releases a dirty slot
during safety check (which ensures other cpus doesn't execute
all dirty slots), the safety check must be fail. So, we need to
hold the mutex while checking safety.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
LKML-Reference: <20090630210809.17851.28781.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>


---
 kernel/kprobes.c |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index c0fa54b..16b5739 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -237,13 +237,9 @@ static int __kprobes collect_garbage_slots(void)
 {
 	struct kprobe_insn_page *kip;
 	struct hlist_node *pos, *next;
-	int safety;
 
 	/* Ensure no-one is preepmted on the garbages */
-	mutex_unlock(&kprobe_insn_mutex);
-	safety = check_safety();
-	mutex_lock(&kprobe_insn_mutex);
-	if (safety != 0)
+	if (check_safety())
 		return -EAGAIN;
 
 	hlist_for_each_entry_safe(kip, pos, next, &kprobe_insn_pages, hlist) {

  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-30 21:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-30 21:07 [PATCH -tip 0/3] kprobes: trivial bugfixes and cleanup Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 21:08 ` [PATCH -tip 1/3] kprobes: fix kprobe selftest configuration dependency Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 21:39   ` [tip:tracing/urgent] kprobes: Fix " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 21:08 ` [PATCH -tip 2/3] kprobes: no need to unlock kprobe_insn_mutex Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 21:40   ` tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2009-07-01  8:47   ` [tip:tracing/core] kprobes: No " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 21:08 ` [PATCH -tip 3/3] kprobes: cleanup: use list instead of hlist for insn_pages Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 21:25   ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-30 21:47     ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 21:50       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-30 23:12         ` Masami Hiramatsu
2009-06-30 23:18           ` Ingo Molnar
2009-06-30 23:27   ` [tip:tracing/core] kprobes: Clean up insn_pages by using list instead of hlist tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2009-07-01  8:47   ` tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu

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