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authorKeshavamurthy Anil S <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>2006-01-09 20:52:44 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-01-10 08:01:40 -0800
commitf709b122343fb9a010b6cf2d5559641f1820f7c9 (patch)
tree5019515d4debd995570ffd35b6311fdd26456306 /arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
parent49a2a1b83ba6fa40c41968d6a28ba16e7ed0c3f7 (diff)
[PATCH] kprobes-changed-from-using-spinlock-to-mutex fix
Based on some feedback from Oleg Nesterov, I have made few changes to previously posted patch. Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c3
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
index 331e169e862..2cd32dd6898 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/kprobes.c
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
#include <asm/kdebug.h>
#include <asm/sstep.h>
-static DECLARE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, current_kprobe) = NULL;
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe_ctlblk, kprobe_ctlblk);
@@ -54,9 +53,7 @@ int __kprobes arch_prepare_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
/* insn must be on a special executable page on ppc64 */
if (!ret) {
- down(&kprobe_mutex);
p->ainsn.insn = get_insn_slot();
- up(&kprobe_mutex);
if (!p->ainsn.insn)
ret = -ENOMEM;
}