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authorAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>2006-01-09 20:52:43 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-10 08:01:40 -0800
commit49a2a1b83ba6fa40c41968d6a28ba16e7ed0c3f7 (patch)
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[PATCH] kprobes: changed from using spinlock to mutex
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c14
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 5368f9c..331e169 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -60,13 +60,13 @@ int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
if (!p->ainsn.insn)
ret = -ENOMEM;
}
- return ret;
-}
-void __kprobes arch_copy_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
-{
- memcpy(p->ainsn.insn, p->addr, MAX_INSN_SIZE * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
- p->opcode = *p->addr;
+ if (!ret) {
+ memcpy(p->ainsn.insn, p->addr, MAX_INSN_SIZE * sizeof(kprobe_opcode_t));
+ p->opcode = *p->addr;
+ }
+
+ return ret;
}
void __kprobes arch_arm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
@@ -85,9 +85,7 @@ void __kprobes arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
void __kprobes arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
{
- down(&kprobe_mutex);
free_insn_slot(p->ainsn.insn);
- up(&kprobe_mutex);
}
static inline void prepare_singlestep(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs)