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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2010-10-25 09:18:01 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-25 09:51:55 -0400
commit43948f50276eca010a22726860dfe9a4e8130136 (patch)
tree7c84a90e5d0fb88ae5972d2bc7b5f1c70cf34650 /kernel/kprobes.c
parent2c78ffeca98fcd5a1dfd4a322438944506ed5e64 (diff)
kprobes: Remove redundant text_mutex lock in optimize
Remove text_mutex locking in optimize_all_kprobes, because this function doesn't modify text. It simply queues probes on optimization list for kprobe_optimizer worker thread. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101025131801.19160.70939.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index ec4210c6501e..7c44133f51ec 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ static struct hlist_head kretprobe_inst_table[KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE];
74/* NOTE: change this value only with kprobe_mutex held */ 74/* NOTE: change this value only with kprobe_mutex held */
75static bool kprobes_all_disarmed; 75static bool kprobes_all_disarmed;
76 76
77static DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex); /* Protects kprobe_table */ 77/* This protects kprobe_table and optimizing_list */
78static DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);
78static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, kprobe_instance) = NULL; 79static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, kprobe_instance) = NULL;
79static struct { 80static struct {
80 spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp; 81 spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
@@ -595,6 +596,7 @@ static __kprobes void try_to_optimize_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
595} 596}
596 597
597#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL 598#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
599/* This should be called with kprobe_mutex locked */
598static void __kprobes optimize_all_kprobes(void) 600static void __kprobes optimize_all_kprobes(void)
599{ 601{
600 struct hlist_head *head; 602 struct hlist_head *head;
@@ -607,17 +609,16 @@ static void __kprobes optimize_all_kprobes(void)
607 return; 609 return;
608 610
609 kprobes_allow_optimization = true; 611 kprobes_allow_optimization = true;
610 mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
611 for (i = 0; i < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; i++) { 612 for (i = 0; i < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; i++) {
612 head = &kprobe_table[i]; 613 head = &kprobe_table[i];
613 hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, node, head, hlist) 614 hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, node, head, hlist)
614 if (!kprobe_disabled(p)) 615 if (!kprobe_disabled(p))
615 optimize_kprobe(p); 616 optimize_kprobe(p);
616 } 617 }
617 mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
618 printk(KERN_INFO "Kprobes globally optimized\n"); 618 printk(KERN_INFO "Kprobes globally optimized\n");
619} 619}
620 620
621/* This should be called with kprobe_mutex locked */
621static void __kprobes unoptimize_all_kprobes(void) 622static void __kprobes unoptimize_all_kprobes(void)
622{ 623{
623 struct hlist_head *head; 624 struct hlist_head *head;