From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
To: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
ia64 <linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org>,
"Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>,
Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>,
systemtap-ml <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:17:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47D6CCAA.7020506@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1205198417.24178.10.camel@sli10-desk.sh.intel.com>
Hi Shaohua,
Shaohua Li wrote:
> Hi,
> On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 02:25 +0800, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>> Shaohua Li wrote:
>>> On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 00:01 +0800, Masami Hiramatsu wrote:
>>> There is no lock to protect the flag. If one cpu invokes other_kp
>> and
>>> the other cpu is changing the flag, what's the result?
>> I think that other cpu never change the flag, because the caller of
>> this
>> function(__register_kprobe) locks kprobe_mutex in kernel/kprobes.c.
> I mean if one cpu is doing register_kprobe, which will change other_kp's
> flag. Another cpu is running into other_kp's break point, which will
> look at the flag, there is a window (between the second cpu looks at the
> flag and doing boost) the first cpu can change the flag in the window.
> It appears we will lose one probe, but not sure if this is over
> thinking.
Sure, it is possible to lose just one probe in that time, but in next time,
we do not lose it. So, I think it is not a problem.
Thanks,
--
Masami Hiramatsu
Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division
e-mail: mhiramat@redhat.com
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-11 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-07 16:02 Masami Hiramatsu
2008-03-10 3:49 ` Shaohua Li
2008-03-10 18:26 ` Masami Hiramatsu
2008-03-11 0:07 ` [PATCH -mm] kprobes: fix prepare_booster to get correct slot Masami Hiramatsu
2008-03-11 1:19 ` [PATCH -mm] kprobes: kprobe-booster for ia64 Shaohua Li
2008-03-11 18:17 ` Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
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