Commit 3945dab4 authored by Masami Hiramatsu's avatar Masami Hiramatsu Committed by Ingo Molnar

tracing, Text Edit Lock - SMP alternatives support

Use the mutual exclusion provided by the text edit lock in alternatives code.
Since alternative_smp_* will be called from module init code, etc,
we'd better protect it from other subsystems.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMasami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <49B14332.9030109@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
parent 4460fdad
......@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
#include <linux/kprobes.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/vmalloc.h>
#include <linux/memory.h>
#include <asm/alternative.h>
#include <asm/sections.h>
#include <asm/pgtable.h>
......@@ -226,6 +227,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_lock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
{
u8 **ptr;
mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
if (*ptr < text)
continue;
......@@ -234,6 +236,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_lock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
/* turn DS segment override prefix into lock prefix */
text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0xf0}), 1);
};
mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
}
static void alternatives_smp_unlock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end)
......@@ -243,6 +246,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_unlock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end
if (noreplace_smp)
return;
mutex_lock(&text_mutex);
for (ptr = start; ptr < end; ptr++) {
if (*ptr < text)
continue;
......@@ -251,6 +255,7 @@ static void alternatives_smp_unlock(u8 **start, u8 **end, u8 *text, u8 *text_end
/* turn lock prefix into DS segment override prefix */
text_poke(*ptr, ((unsigned char []){0x3E}), 1);
};
mutex_unlock(&text_mutex);
}
struct smp_alt_module {
......
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