On 06/18/2007 05:58 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > Interface to use for code patching : uses a mutex to insure mutual edit > exclusion and makes sure the page is writable. > ... > +/* Mutex protecting text section modification (dynamic code patching) */ > +static DEFINE_MUTEX(text_mutex); > +
Probably should be a spinlock. And it just occurred to me, how does smp_alternatives deal with this? Is it broken now when the text section is read-only? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
