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authorAnanth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>2005-11-07 01:00:14 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-11-07 07:53:46 -0800
commitd217d5450f11d8c907c0458d175b0dc999b4d06d (patch)
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parent991a51d83a3d9bebfafdd1e692cf310899d60791 (diff)
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[PATCH] Kprobes: preempt_disable/enable() simplification
Reorganize the preempt_disable/enable calls to eliminate the extra preempt depth. Changes based on Paul McKenney's review suggestions for the kprobes RCU changeset. Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/kprobes.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
index cfef426..5beda37 100644
--- a/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ static inline void reset_kprobe_instance(void)
* This routine is called either:
* - under the kprobe_lock spinlock - during kprobe_[un]register()
* OR
- * - under an rcu_read_lock() - from arch/xxx/kernel/kprobes.c
+ * - with preemption disabled - from arch/xxx/kernel/kprobes.c
*/
struct kprobe __kprobes *get_kprobe(void *addr)
{
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