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| author |   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> | 2008-09-29 11:05:13 -0400 |
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| committer |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-14 10:38:26 +0200 |
| commit | e98d0eabef2748d88fa58760d104e8e68517406b (patch) | |
| tree | 6a7782971bdd598380eab43c0cb9aefbb2c6e2d6 | |
| parent | tracepoints: fix reentrancy (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-e98d0eabef2748d88fa58760d104e8e68517406b.tar.xz linux-dev-e98d0eabef2748d88fa58760d104e8e68517406b.zip | |
markers: marker_synchronize_unregister()
Create marker_synchronize_unregister() which must be called before the end of
exit() to make sure every probe callers have exited the non preemptible section
and thus are not executing the probe code anymore.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/marker.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/marker.h b/include/linux/marker.h index 1290653f9241..889196c7fbb1 100644 --- a/include/linux/marker.h +++ b/include/linux/marker.h @@ -160,4 +160,11 @@ extern int marker_probe_unregister_private_data(marker_probe_func *probe, extern void *marker_get_private_data(const char *name, marker_probe_func *probe, int num); +/* + * marker_synchronize_unregister must be called between the last marker probe + * unregistration and the end of module exit to make sure there is no caller + * executing a probe when it is freed. + */ +#define marker_synchronize_unregister() synchronize_sched() + #endif |