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Date:   Wed, 29 Apr 2020 18:20:26 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To:     Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] x86/mm: Sync all vmalloc mappings before text_poke()
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On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 06:17:47PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:07:31AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > Talking with Mathieu about this on IRC, he pointed out that my code does
> > have a vzalloc() that is called:
> > 
> > in trace_pid_write()
> > 
> > 	pid_list->pids = vzalloc((pid_list->pid_max + 7) >> 3);
> > 
> > This is done when -P1,2 is on the trace-cmd command line.
> 
> And that buffer is written to at any function entry?

What I meant to say, is it possible that the page-fault handler does not
complete because at its beginning it calls into trace-code and faults
again on the same address?

Regards,

	Joerg