kprobes: Disable booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y
authorMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:49:04 +0000 (16:49 -0500)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Thu, 4 Feb 2010 08:36:18 +0000 (09:36 +0100)
Disable kprobe booster when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y at this time,
because it can't ensure that all kernel threads preempted on
kprobe's boosted slot run out from the slot even using
freeze_processes().

The booster on preemptive kernel will be resumed if
synchronize_tasks() or something like that is introduced.

Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
Cc: systemtap <systemtap@sources.redhat.com>
Cc: DLE <dle-develop@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Jim Keniston <jkenisto@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <compudj@krystal.dyndns.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
LKML-Reference: <20100202214904.4694.24330.stgit@dhcp-100-2-132.bos.redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
arch/ia64/kernel/kprobes.c
arch/x86/kernel/kprobes.c
kernel/kprobes.c

index 9adac441ac9bb1f4400a6620951d7e07bbdcdfbe..7026b29e277a6785c397a4c7e6889c32cc91b69e 100644 (file)
@@ -870,7 +870,7 @@ static int __kprobes pre_kprobes_handler(struct die_args *args)
                return 1;
 
 ss_probe:
-#if !defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) || defined(CONFIG_FREEZER)
+#if !defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
        if (p->ainsn.inst_flag == INST_FLAG_BOOSTABLE && !p->post_handler) {
                /* Boost up -- we can execute copied instructions directly */
                ia64_psr(regs)->ri = p->ainsn.slot;
index 5b8c7505b3bc2438429a330117a36c20dcf16339..9453815138fa86cc5289cffdd79ed279c3231a4b 100644 (file)
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ void __kprobes arch_prepare_kretprobe(struct kretprobe_instance *ri,
 static void __kprobes setup_singlestep(struct kprobe *p, struct pt_regs *regs,
                                       struct kprobe_ctlblk *kcb)
 {
-#if !defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) || defined(CONFIG_FREEZER)
+#if !defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT)
        if (p->ainsn.boostable == 1 && !p->post_handler) {
                /* Boost up -- we can execute copied instructions directly */
                reset_current_kprobe();
index b7df302a02046e2b9404d8267a66a6300ffd831a..9907a03c29f62e16a1f58dff1c711c185571ea0c 100644 (file)
@@ -124,30 +124,6 @@ static LIST_HEAD(kprobe_insn_pages);
 static int kprobe_garbage_slots;
 static int collect_garbage_slots(void);
 
-static int __kprobes check_safety(void)
-{
-       int ret = 0;
-#if defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT) && defined(CONFIG_FREEZER)
-       ret = freeze_processes();
-       if (ret == 0) {
-               struct task_struct *p, *q;
-               do_each_thread(p, q) {
-                       if (p != current && p->state == TASK_RUNNING &&
-                           p->pid != 0) {
-                               printk("Check failed: %s is running\n",p->comm);
-                               ret = -1;
-                               goto loop_end;
-                       }
-               } while_each_thread(p, q);
-       }
-loop_end:
-       thaw_processes();
-#else
-       synchronize_sched();
-#endif
-       return ret;
-}
-
 /**
  * __get_insn_slot() - Find a slot on an executable page for an instruction.
  * We allocate an executable page if there's no room on existing ones.
@@ -235,9 +211,8 @@ static int __kprobes collect_garbage_slots(void)
 {
        struct kprobe_insn_page *kip, *next;
 
-       /* Ensure no-one is preepmted on the garbages */
-       if (check_safety())
-               return -EAGAIN;
+       /* Ensure no-one is interrupted on the garbages */
+       synchronize_sched();
 
        list_for_each_entry_safe(kip, next, &kprobe_insn_pages, list) {
                int i;