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To: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mjw@redhat.com>, systemtap@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [Bug uprobes/11672] utrace_report_syscall_exit crash
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From: fche@redhat.com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 19:53:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <20100614084019.7F188408C2@magilla.sf.frob.com> (Roland McGrath's message of "Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:40:19 -0700 (PDT)")
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Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> writes:

> [...]  The only clearly safe alternative I see there is some giant
> synchronization like stop_machine_run, off hand.  [...]

Actually, why not.  One stop_machine_run per systemtap module shutdown
may well be tolerable.

- FChE