linux-kernel - Re: [tip:tracing/ftrace] tracing: fix oops in tracepoint_update_probe

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Date:	Thu, 19 Mar 2009 00:34:28 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	mingo@...hat.com, hpa@...or.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	jaswinderrajput@...il.com, fweisbec@...il.com, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:tracing/ftrace] tracing: fix oops in
 tracepoint_update_probe_range()

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 19:58 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> It might have worked but it was rather ugly: it took the 
> tracepoints_mutex for no reason.
> 
> The clean fix to skip zero-sized sections early in the function, 
> without taking any lock, and without emitting a warning.
> 

Yes, now it looks better, thanks :-)

--
JSR

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