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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> | 2009-01-06 14:41:50 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-01-06 15:59:20 -0800 |
| commit | 129415607845d4daea11ddcba706005c69dcb942 (patch) | |
| tree | 9046ea79a0b81c8823b9d42f00fd7c158861ed5c /arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | |
| parent | a06f6211ef9b1785922f9d0e8766d63ac4e66de1 (diff) | |
kprobes: add kprobe_insn_mutex and cleanup arch_remove_kprobe()
Add kprobe_insn_mutex for protecting kprobe_insn_pages hlist, and remove
kprobe_mutex from architecture dependent code.
This allows us to call arch_remove_kprobe() (and free_insn_slot) while
holding kprobe_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c index de79915452c8..989edcdf0297 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c @@ -96,9 +96,10 @@ void __kprobes arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p) void __kprobes arch_remove_kprobe(struct kprobe *p) { - mutex_lock(&kprobe_mutex); - free_insn_slot(p->ainsn.insn, 0); - mutex_unlock(&kprobe_mutex); + if (p->ainsn.insn) { + free_insn_slot(p->ainsn.insn, 0); + p->ainsn.insn = NULL; + } } static void __kprobes prepare_singlestep(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs) |