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SubjectRe: [RFC] [PATCH 2.6.37-rc5-tip 5/20] 5: Uprobes: register/unregister probes.
* Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2011-01-25 13:15:45]:

> > +
> > + if (atomic_read(&uprobe->ref) == 1) {
> > + synchronize_sched();
> > + rb_erase(&uprobe->rb_node, &uprobes_tree);
>
> How is that safe without holding the treelock?

Right,
Something like this should be good enuf right?

if (atomic_read(&uprobe->ref) == 1) {
synchronize_sched();
spin_lock_irqsave(&treelock, flags);
rb_erase(&uprobe->rb_node, &uprobes_tree);
spin_lock_irqrestore(&treelock, flags);
iput(uprobe->inode);
}

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Thanks and Regards
Srikar

PS: Last time I had goofed up with Linux-mm mailing alias.
Hopefully this time it goes to the right list.


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