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authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>2010-10-25 22:18:01 +0900
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-10-25 15:51:55 +0200
commit43948f50276eca010a22726860dfe9a4e8130136 (patch)
tree7c84a90e5d0fb88ae5972d2bc7b5f1c70cf34650 /kernel/kprobes.c
parent2c78ffeca98fcd5a1dfd4a322438944506ed5e64 (diff)
kprobes: Remove redundant text_mutex lock in optimize
Remove text_mutex locking in optimize_all_kprobes, because this function doesn't modify text. It simply queues probes on optimization list for kprobe_optimizer worker thread. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> LKML-Reference: <20101025131801.19160.70939.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c7
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index ec4210c6501..7c44133f51e 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ static struct hlist_head kretprobe_inst_table[KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE];
/* NOTE: change this value only with kprobe_mutex held */
static bool kprobes_all_disarmed;
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex); /* Protects kprobe_table */
+/* This protects kprobe_table and optimizing_list */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, kprobe_instance) = NULL;
static struct {
spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
@@ -595,6 +596,7 @@ static __kprobes void try_to_optimize_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
}
#ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+/* This should be called with kprobe_mutex locked */
static void __kprobes optimize_all_kprobes(void)
{
struct hlist_head *head;
@@ -607,17 +609,16 @@ static void __kprobes optimize_all_kprobes(void)
return;
kprobes_allow_optimization = true;
- mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
for (i = 0; i < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; i++) {
head = &kprobe_table[i];
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, node, head, hlist)
if (!kprobe_disabled(p))
optimize_kprobe(p);
}
- mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
printk(KERN_INFO "Kprobes globally optimized\n");
}
+/* This should be called with kprobe_mutex locked */
static void __kprobes unoptimize_all_kprobes(void)
{
struct hlist_head *head;