linux-kernel - Re: [patch 01/17] Kprobes - use a mutex to protect the instruction pages list.

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Date:	Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:08:12 -0400
From:	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>,
	hch@...radead.org, anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com,
	davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [patch 01/17] Kprobes - use a mutex to protect the instruction
 pages list.

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Protect the instruction pages list by a specific insn pages mutex, called in 
> get_insn_slot() and free_insn_slot(). It makes sure that architectures that does
> not need to call arch_remove_kprobe() does not take an unneeded kprobes mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@...ibm.com>
> CC: hch@...radead.org
> CC: anil.s.keshavamurthy@...el.com
> CC: davem@...emloft.net

These kprobes related patches are good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...hat.com>

Thank you!

-- 
Masami Hiramatsu

Software Engineer
Hitachi Computer Products (America) Inc.
Software Solutions Division

e-mail: mhiramat@...hat.com


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