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| author | Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com> | 2006-12-06 20:38:11 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.osdl.org> | 2006-12-07 08:39:38 -0800 |
| commit | b4c6c34a530b4d1c626f4ac0a884e0a9b849378c (patch) | |
| tree | 5705a4621b6668bced1969396465800256d76c76 /include/linux/kprobes.h | |
| parent | c15bb296403f1ce448384d58742e0dc04f49d664 (diff) | |
[PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernel
When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its
instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some
processes might be preempted on the buffer. The freeze_processes() and
thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer.
There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag. If
those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the
buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing.
However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time. So, this
patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot. It also
introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency.
The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released
immediately. But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are
marked as garbages. collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release
"dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if
there are no unused slots.
Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/kprobes.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/kprobes.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/kprobes.h b/include/linux/kprobes.h index ac4c0559f751..769be39b9681 100644 --- a/include/linux/kprobes.h +++ b/include/linux/kprobes.h @@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ extern void arch_disarm_kprobe(struct kprobe *p); extern int arch_init_kprobes(void); extern void show_registers(struct pt_regs *regs); extern kprobe_opcode_t *get_insn_slot(void); -extern void free_insn_slot(kprobe_opcode_t *slot); +extern void free_insn_slot(kprobe_opcode_t *slot, int dirty); extern void kprobes_inc_nmissed_count(struct kprobe *p); /* Get the kprobe at this addr (if any) - called with preemption disabled */ |