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| author |   Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-08 16:48:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-03-08 16:48:51 +0100 |
| commit | dba58e39ced7af63f2748d12bbb2b4ac83c72391 (patch) | |
| tree | ee15a5e7667b51d0d0f7e8cb39064652f7c84c28 /mm/memory.c | |
| parent | tracing: trace_bprintk() cleanups (diff) | |
| parent | x86: implement atomic text_poke() via fixmap (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-dba58e39ced7af63f2748d12bbb2b4ac83c72391.tar.xz linux-dev-dba58e39ced7af63f2748d12bbb2b4ac83c72391.zip | |
Merge branches 'tracing/doc', 'tracing/ftrace', 'tracing/printk' and 'tracing/textedit' into tracing/core
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/memory.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/memory.c | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c index baa999e87cd2..05fab3bc5b4b 100644 --- a/mm/memory.c +++ b/mm/memory.c @@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ #include <linux/rmap.h> #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/delayacct.h> +#include <linux/kprobes.h> +#include <linux/mutex.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/writeback.h> #include <linux/memcontrol.h> @@ -99,6 +101,14 @@ int randomize_va_space __read_mostly = 2; #endif +/* + * mutex protecting text section modification (dynamic code patching). + * some users need to sleep (allocating memory...) while they hold this lock. + * + * NOT exported to modules - patching kernel text is a really delicate matter. + */ +DEFINE_MUTEX(text_mutex); + static int __init disable_randmaps(char *s) { randomize_va_space = 0; |