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authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>2009-03-06 10:37:22 -0500
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-06 16:49:00 +0100
commit3945dab45aa8c89014893bfa8eb1e1661a409cef (patch)
treedff11f176f0027d8958c7176524e7a64e8711f30 /arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
parent4460fdad85becd569f11501ad5b91814814335ff (diff)
tracing, Text Edit Lock - SMP alternatives support
Use the mutual exclusion provided by the text edit lock in alternatives code. Since alternative_smp_* will be called from module init code, etc, we'd better protect it from other subsystems. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <49B14332.9030109@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
index 4c80f155743..092a7b8be68 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/alternative.c
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
+#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -226,6 +227,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_lock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
{
u8 **ptr;
+ mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
if (*ptr < text)
continue;
@@ -234,6 +236,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_lock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
/* turn DS segment override prefix into lock prefix */
text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0xf0}), 1);
};
+ mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
}
static void alternatives_smp_unlock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
@@ -243,6 +246,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_unlock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end
if (noreplace_smp)
return;
+ mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
if (*ptr < text)
continue;
@@ -251,6 +255,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_unlock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end
/* turn lock prefix into DS segment override prefix */
text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0x3E}), 1);
};
+ mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
}
struct smp_alt_module {