Re: [RFC PATCH] x86 NMI-safe INT3 and Page Fault (v5)

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Thu Apr 17 2008 - 20:06:47 EST


* Andi Kleen (andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > It allows placing immediate values (and therefore optimized trace_marks) in NMI
> > code
>
> Only if all your trace_mark infrastructure is lock less.
>
> -Andi
>

It uses RCU-style updates and has been designed to be lockless from the
ground up.

Mathieu

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