Re: [patch 01/17] Kprobes - use a mutex to protect the instructionpages list.

From: Masami Hiramatsu
Date: Wed Apr 09 2008 - 16:09:53 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> CC: anil.s.keshavamurthy@xxxxxxxxx
> CC: davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

These kprobes related patches are good to me.

Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thank you!

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Masami Hiramatsu

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

e-mail: mhiramat@xxxxxxxxxx


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