[PATCH] kprobes: changed from using spinlock to mutex
authorAnil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 04:52:43 +0000 (20:52 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 16:01:40 +0000 (08:01 -0800)
Since Kprobes runtime exception handlers is now lock free as this code path is
now using RCU to walk through the list, there is no need for the
register/unregister{_kprobe} to use spin_{lock/unlock}_isr{save/restore}.  The
serialization during registration/unregistration is now possible using just a
mutex.

In the above process, this patch also fixes a minor memory leak for x86_64 and
powerpc.

Signed-off-by: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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