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From: tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
To: linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ananth@in.ibm.com, hpa@zytor.com,
	mingo@redhat.com, masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, tglx@linutronix.de, mingo@elte.hu
Subject: [tip:perf/core] kprobes: Update document about irq disabled state in kprobe handler
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 07:39:58 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <tip-0f55a2f3d496133dd22f1e4e49fb7301da87c7bb@git.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101014031018.4100.64883.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>

Commit-ID:  0f55a2f3d496133dd22f1e4e49fb7301da87c7bb
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/0f55a2f3d496133dd22f1e4e49fb7301da87c7bb
Author:     Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
AuthorDate: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:10:18 +0900
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
CommitDate: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:55:27 +0200

kprobes: Update document about irq disabled state in kprobe handler

Update kprobes.txt about interrupts disabled state inside
kprobes handlers, because optimized probe/boosted kretprobe
run without disabling interrrupts on x86.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp
LKML-Reference: <20101014031018.4100.64883.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 Documentation/kprobes.txt |    8 +++++---
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
index 1762b81..741fe66 100644
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -542,9 +542,11 @@ Kprobes does not use mutexes or allocate memory except during
 registration and unregistration.
 
 Probe handlers are run with preemption disabled.  Depending on the
-architecture, handlers may also run with interrupts disabled.  In any
-case, your handler should not yield the CPU (e.g., by attempting to
-acquire a semaphore).
+architecture and optimization state, handlers may also run with
+interrupts disabled (e.g., kretprobe handlers and optimized kprobe
+handlers run without interrupt disabled on x86/x86-64).  In any case,
+your handler should not yield the CPU (e.g., by attempting to acquire
+a semaphore).
 
 Since a return probe is implemented by replacing the return
 address with the trampoline's address, stack backtraces and calls

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-14  7:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-14  3:10 [PATCH -tip 0/5] Kprobes updates Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  3:10 ` [PATCH -tip 1/5] [RESEND] kprobes: Update document about irq disabled state in kprobe handler Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  7:39   ` tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu [this message]
2010-10-14  3:10 ` [PATCH -tip 2/5] [RESEND][BUGFIX] kprobes: Fix selftest to clear flags field for reusing probes Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  7:40   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  3:10 ` [PATCH -tip 3/5] Define __stop_machine when CONFIG_STOP_MACHINE=n Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  5:00   ` Tejun Heo
2010-10-14  7:40   ` [tip:perf/core] stopmachine: " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  3:10 ` [PATCH -tip 4/5] [BUGFIX] x86: Use __stop_machine() in text_poke_smp() Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  7:41   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  3:10 ` [PATCH -tip 5/5] [BUGFIX] kconfig/x86: Add HAVE_TEXT_POKE_SMP config for stop_machine dependency Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  7:41   ` [tip:perf/core] " tip-bot for Masami Hiramatsu
2010-10-14  6:52 ` [PATCH -tip 0/5] Kprobes updates Ingo Molnar

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