[PATCH] kprobes-changed-from-using-spinlock-to-mutex fix

Based on some feedback from Oleg Nesterov, I have made few changes to
previously posted patch.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 331e169e8629..2cd32dd6898b 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
 #include <asm/kdebug.h>
 #include <asm/sstep.h>
 
-static DECLARE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL;
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
 
@@ -54,9 +53,7 @@ int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 
         /* insn must be on a special executable page on ppc64 */
         if (!ret) {
-                down(&kprobe_mutex);
                 p->ainsn.insn = get_insn_slot();
-                up(&kprobe_mutex);
                 if (!p->ainsn.insn)
                         ret = -ENOMEM;
         }