From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753602Ab3EIQej (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 May 2013 12:34:39 -0400 Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.122]:26831 "EHLO hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751983Ab3EIQei (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 May 2013 12:34:38 -0400 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.0 cv=UY7TuduN c=1 sm=0 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:17 a=mNMOxpOpBa8A:10 a=DN1rENdJRV0A:10 a=5SG0PmZfjMsA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=meVymXHHAAAA:8 a=CpQRuSp1N3wA:10 a=opYDYlh_kkQ0uvKZdVEA:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 a=rXTBtCOcEpjy1lPqhTCpEQ==:117 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-Authenticated-User: X-Originating-IP: 74.67.115.198 Message-ID: <1368117277.7373.119.camel@gandalf.local.home> Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] [BUGFIX] ftrace, kprobes: Fix a deadlock on ftrace_regex_lock From: Steven Rostedt To: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Srikar Dronamraju , Frederic Weisbecker , yrl.pp-manager.tt@hitachi.com, Oleg Nesterov , Ingo Molnar , Tom Zanussi Date: Thu, 09 May 2013 12:34:37 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1368116860.7373.118.camel@gandalf.local.home> References: <20130509054405.30398.73831.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522> <20130509054417.30398.84254.stgit@mhiramat-M0-7522> <1368116860.7373.118.camel@gandalf.local.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.4.4-2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 12:27 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > We probably should have a better way to initialize this. As there are 26 > ftrace_ops currently in the kernel (and this patch doesn't cover all of > them). Maybe have the first time its registered to initialize it. Crap, but it can be used before that. Hmm, I guess all ftrace functions will need to check that flag first. We do something similar for rt_mutex in -rt. -- Steve