Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 15:15:30 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org,
       systemtap@sources.redhat.com,
       "Keshavamurthy, Anil S" <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [discuss] [PATCH] utilization of kprobe_mutex is incorrect on x86_64
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 08:43:44AM +0800, Zhang, Yanmin wrote:
>  <<kprobe_incorrect_kprobe_mutex_2.6.14-rc2_x86_64.patch>> I found it
> when reading the source codes. Basically, the bug could break
> kprobe_insn_pages under multi-thread environment. PPC arch also has the
> problem.

Can you describe what the problem actually is? 

-Andi

> Here is the patch against x86_64.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Yanmin <Yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
> 
> 


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