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    SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 12/26] Uprobes: Handle breakpoint and Singlestep
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    On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 21:31 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
    > * Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> [2011-09-26 15:59:13]:
    >
    > > On Tue, 2011-09-20 at 17:32 +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
    > > > Hence provide some extra
    > > > + * time (by way of synchronize_sched() for breakpoint hit threads to acquire
    > > > + * the uprobes_treelock before the uprobe is removed from the rbtree.
    > >
    > > 'Some extra time' doesn't make me all warm an fuzzy inside, but instead
    > > screams we fudge around a race condition.
    >
    > The extra time provided is sufficient to avoid the race. So will modify
    > it to mean "sufficient" instead of "some".
    >
    > Would that suffice?

    Much better, for extra point, explain why its sufficient as well ;-)


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