android_kernel_samsung_msm8976/arch/i386
Masami Hiramatsu b4c6c34a53 [PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernel
When we are unregistering a kprobe-booster, we can't release its
instruction buffer immediately on the preemptive kernel, because some
processes might be preempted on the buffer.  The freeze_processes() and
thaw_processes() functions can clean most of processes up from the buffer.
There are still some non-frozen threads who have the PF_NOFREEZE flag.  If
those threads are sleeping (not preempted) at the known place outside the
buffer, we can ensure safety of freeing.

However, the processing of this check routine takes a long time.  So, this
patch introduces the garbage collection mechanism of insn_slot.  It also
introduces the "dirty" flag to free_insn_slot because of efficiency.

The "clean" instruction slots (dirty flag is cleared) are released
immediately.  But the "dirty" slots which are used by boosted kprobes, are
marked as garbages.  collect_garbage_slots() will be invoked to release
"dirty" slots if there are more than INSNS_PER_PAGE garbage slots or if
there are no unused slots.

Cc: "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "bibo,mao" <bibo.mao@intel.com>
Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Yumiko Sugita <yumiko.sugita.yf@hitachi.com>
Cc: Satoshi Oshima <soshima@redhat.com>
Cc: Hideo Aoki <haoki@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
..
boot [PATCH] Some config.h removals 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
crypto
kernel [PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernel 2006-12-07 08:39:38 -08:00
lib [PATCH] separate bdi congestion functions from queue congestion functions 2006-10-20 10:26:35 -07:00
mach-default
mach-es7000
mach-generic
mach-visws [PATCH] visws build fix 2006-10-28 11:30:52 -07:00
mach-voyager [VOYAGER] fix up ptregs removal mess 2006-10-12 22:25:03 -05:00
math-emu
mm [PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_t 2006-12-07 08:39:25 -08:00
oprofile
pci PCI: make arch/i386/pci/common.c:pci_bf_sort static 2006-12-01 14:37:00 -08:00
power [PATCH] swsusp: Support i386 systems with PAE or without PSE 2006-12-07 08:39:28 -08:00
defconfig [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig 2006-10-21 18:37:01 +02:00
Kconfig Attack of "the the"s in arch 2006-10-03 22:21:02 +02:00
Kconfig.cpu [PATCH] uml: fix processor selection to exclude unsupported processors and features 2006-10-11 11:14:20 -07:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile [PATCH] x86: Use -maccumulate-outgoing-args 2006-10-21 18:37:01 +02:00
Makefile.cpu