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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/5] ftrace: use module notifier for function tracer

* Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU> wrote:

> On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Rusty Russell wrote:
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> > I think you need to do something else in general. Share the module_mutex for
> > the ftrace code? The ksplice guys have a similar issue, so maybe we should
> > generalize this into a "kernel_text" mutex?
>
> Yes, a kernel_text mutex is on my list of things to propose once
> Ksplice gets merged.

too late :-) These bits were written 1.5 months ago and are already
upstream:

3945dab: tracing, Text Edit Lock - SMP alternatives support
4460fda: tracing, Text Edit Lock - kprobes architecture independent support
0e39ac4: tracing, Text Edit Lock - Architecture Independent Code

I suspect ksplice could make use of text_mutex?

Ingo


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