kprobes: Remove redundant text_mutex lock in optimize
authorMasami Hiramatsu <masami.hiramatsu.pt@hitachi.com>
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:18:01 +0000 (22:18 +0900)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 25 Oct 2010 13:51:55 +0000 (15:51 +0200)
Remove text_mutex locking in optimize_all_kprobes, because
this function doesn't modify text. It simply queues probes on
optimization list for kprobe_optimizer worker thread.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
LKML-Reference: <20101025131801.19160.70939.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/kprobes.c

index ec4210c6501e1b549d18c2a89fa3cbe8725da35b..7c44133f51ec534eb0cb6a85224e9132f7eb60d9 100644 (file)
@@ -74,7 +74,8 @@ static struct hlist_head kretprobe_inst_table[KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE];
 /* NOTE: change this value only with kprobe_mutex held */
 static bool kprobes_all_disarmed;
 
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);     /* Protects kprobe_table */
+/* This protects kprobe_table and optimizing_list */
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(kprobe_mutex);
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct kprobe *, kprobe_instance) = NULL;
 static struct {
        spinlock_t lock ____cacheline_aligned_in_smp;
@@ -595,6 +596,7 @@ static __kprobes void try_to_optimize_kprobe(struct kprobe *p)
 }
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_SYSCTL
+/* This should be called with kprobe_mutex locked */
 static void __kprobes optimize_all_kprobes(void)
 {
        struct hlist_head *head;
@@ -607,17 +609,16 @@ static void __kprobes optimize_all_kprobes(void)
                return;
 
        kprobes_allow_optimization = true;
-       mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
        for (i = 0; i < KPROBE_TABLE_SIZE; i++) {
                head = &kprobe_table[i];
                hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(p, node, head, hlist)
                        if (!kprobe_disabled(p))
                                optimize_kprobe(p);
        }
-       mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
        printk(KERN_INFO "Kprobes globally optimized\n");
 }
 
+/* This should be called with kprobe_mutex locked */
 static void __kprobes unoptimize_all_kprobes(void)
 {
        struct hlist_head *head;