From: Masami Hiramatsu Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 03:10:18 +0000 (+0900) Subject: kprobes: Update document about irq disabled state in kprobe handler X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc1~214^2~26 X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f55a2f3d496133dd22f1e4e49fb7301da87c7bb;p=~shefty%2Frdma-dev.git kprobes: Update document about irq disabled state in kprobe handler Update kprobes.txt about interrupts disabled state inside kprobes handlers, because optimized probe/boosted kretprobe run without disabling interrrupts on x86. Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli Cc: 2nddept-manager@sdl.hitachi.co.jp LKML-Reference: <20101014031018.4100.64883.stgit@ltc236.sdl.hitachi.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt index 1762b81fcdf..741fe66d6ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt @@ -542,9 +542,11 @@ Kprobes does not use mutexes or allocate memory except during registration and unregistration. Probe handlers are run with preemption disabled. Depending on the -architecture, handlers may also run with interrupts disabled. In any -case, your handler should not yield the CPU (e.g., by attempting to -acquire a semaphore). +architecture and optimization state, handlers may also run with +interrupts disabled (e.g., kretprobe handlers and optimized kprobe +handlers run without interrupt disabled on x86/x86-64). In any case, +your handler should not yield the CPU (e.g., by attempting to acquire +a semaphore). Since a return probe is implemented by replacing the return address with the trampoline's address, stack backtraces and calls