linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/9] ftrace: Add enable/disable ftrace

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Date:	Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:05:41 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc:	Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, fweisbec@...il.com, mingo@...hat.com,
	paulus@...ba.org, acme@...stprotocols.net,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/9] ftrace: Add enable/disable ftrace_ops control
 interface

On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 21:02 +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 14:26 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > 
> > Are jump labels safe in NMI context yet? If not, this will need to wait
> > till we make it so. 
> 
> I don't think they are, we currently very much rely on that
> stop_machine() crap. NMIs can go straight through that.
> 
> I think you can make it work with the stop_machine()-less approach,
> because then the NMI will trap on the INT3 which will wait for
> completion, sync and resume the NMI.

Note that this of course precludes ever using jump_labels from do_int3
handlers ;-)
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