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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-06-30 17:08:09 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-07-01 04:43:07 -0400
commit4a2bb6fcc80e6330ca2f2393e98605052cc7780b (patch)
tree3e1d2314d7002f13bb61ff78266cce3922673c93 /kernel/kprobes.c
parent238a24f626628cb16a3015f332d649f08246ca89 (diff)
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c6
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index c0fa54b276d9..16b5739c516a 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -237,13 +237,9 @@ static int __kprobes collect_garbage_slots(void)
237{ 237{
238 struct kprobe_insn_page *kip; 238 struct kprobe_insn_page *kip;
239 struct hlist_node *pos, *next; 239 struct hlist_node *pos, *next;
240 int safety;
241 240
242 /* Ensure no-one is preepmted on the garbages */ 241 /* Ensure no-one is preepmted on the garbages */
243 mutex_unlock(&kprobe_insn_mutex); 242 if (check_safety())
244 safety = check_safety();
245 mutex_lock(&kprobe_insn_mutex);
246 if (safety != 0)
247 return -EAGAIN; 243 return -EAGAIN;
248 244
249 hlist_for_each_entry_safe(kip, pos, next, &kprobe_insn_pages, hlist) { 245 hlist_for_each_entry_safe(kip, pos, next, &kprobe_insn_pages, hlist) {