Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Mar 2015 09:58:53 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] kprobes: Disable Kprobe when ftrace arming fails |
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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 14:53:06 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > I think it has to do with their RCU like patching functionality, > > where some tasks are still executing the old function and others are > > executing the new function. [...] > > That would be the 'function with pending patch' state in my > description above.
That could be considered a bit confusing too, because the patch isn't pending, it's already applied. But this is getting off topic, as the code for this isn't even in mainline yet, so I agree that the use of terminology that has not been upstreamed yet should be avoided.
-- Steve
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