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    [PATCH] kprobes: enable booster on the preemptible kernel · b4c6c34a
    Masami Hiramatsu authored
    
    
    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: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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