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| author | Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> | 2012-05-30 13:26:37 -0400 |
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| committer | Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> | 2012-05-31 23:12:17 -0400 |
| commit | a192cd0413b71c2a3e4e48dd365af704be72b748 (patch) | |
| tree | 739c64a3fd4bf58b7c34a9eb5bc83aa844a06bf3 /arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h | |
| parent | c985f7812331d79483beab932e8966477411a942 (diff) | |
ftrace: Synchronize variable setting with breakpoints
When the function tracer starts modifying the code via breakpoints
it sets a variable (modifying_ftrace_code) to inform the breakpoint
handler to call the ftrace int3 code.
But there's no synchronization between setting this code and the
handler, thus it is possible for the handler to be called on another
CPU before it sees the variable. This will cause a kernel crash as
the int3 handler will not know what to do with it.
I originally added smp_mb()'s to force the visibility of the variable
but H. Peter Anvin suggested that I just make it atomic.
[ Added comments as suggested by Peter Zijlstra ]
Suggested-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h index 18d9005d9e4..b0767bc0874 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/ftrace.h @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__ extern void mcount(void); -extern int modifying_ftrace_code; +extern atomic_t modifying_ftrace_code; static inline unsigned long ftrace_call_adjust(unsigned long addr) { |