Re: [PATCH] tracing/filters: allow on-the-fly filter switching

From: Li Zefan
Date: Tue Apr 14 2009 - 21:12:25 EST


> Ok, the whole design and concept looks nice.
>
> But you really need to think about a locking scheme to protect
> the filters from user files.
>

I noticed this and fixed it in that
"[PATCH 7/7] tracing/filters: make filter preds RCU safe"

I'll try to fix it on top of Tom's on-the-fly filter swithcing,
if Tom hasn't started to do this.

> Also, is filter_add_pred() supposed to be available for in-kernel
> uses by other tracers or something?
> If this is planned, the locking could be even deeper than my comments.
>
> Other than these comments:
>
> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks!
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