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RE: [RFC][Patch 2/2][take2]kprobe: kprobe-booster against 2.6.14-mm1 for i386
- From: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil dot s dot keshavamurthy at intel dot com>
- To: "Masami Hiramatsu" <hiramatu at sdl dot hitachi dot co dot jp>, <ananth at in dot ibm dot com>, "Satoshi Oshima" <soshima at redhat dot com>
- Cc: <systemtap at sources dot redhat dot com>, "Yumiko Sugita" <sugita at sdl dot hitachi dot co dot jp>, "Hideo Aoki" <haoki at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:37:21 -0800
- Subject: RE: [RFC][Patch 2/2][take2]kprobe: kprobe-booster against 2.6.14-mm1 for i386
>You are correct. I had misunderstood the synchronize_sched().
>I read the RCU code again, and I understood that the
>synchronize_sched()
>is enough to check safety of the kprobe-booster.
>So, previous kprobe-booster patch is safe, but it is for old
>-mm kernel.
>I update and post it again soon.
>
In previous kprobe-booster patch, I did not see the config option
where you enable kprobe-booster only if kernel preemption is disabled.
So are you going to include this in your new patch?