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[PATCH] kprobes: changed from using spinlock to mutex

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Since Kprobes runtime exception handlers is now lock free as this code path is
now using RCU to walk through the list, there is no need for the
register/unregister{_kprobe} to use spin_{lock/unlock}_isr{save/restore}.  The
serialization during registration/unregistration is now possible using just a
mutex.

In the above process, this patch also fixes a minor memory leak for x86_64 and
powerpc.

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>
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Anil S Keshavamurthy
2006-01-09 20:52:43 -08:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 41dead49cc
commit 49a2a1b83b
7 changed files with 53 additions and 77 deletions
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@@ -150,7 +150,6 @@ struct kretprobe_instance {
extern spinlock_t kretprobe_lock;
extern int arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
extern void arch_copy_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
extern void arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
extern void arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);
extern void arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p);