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SubjectRe: [PATCH v5 3.1.0-rc4-tip 0/26] Uprobes patchset with perf probe support
* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> [2011-09-20 10:28:43]:

> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 07:42:04PM +0530, Srikar Dronamraju wrote:
> > I could use any other inode/file/mapping based sleepable lock that is of
> > higher order than mmap_sem. Can you please let me know if we have
> > alternatives.
>
> Please do not overload unrelated locks for this, but add a specific one.
>
> There's two options:
>
> (a) add it to the inode (conditionally)
> (b) use global, hashed locks
>
> I think (b) is good enough as adding/removing probes isn't exactly the
> most critical fast path.
>

Agree, I will replace the i_mutex with a uprobes specific hash locks.
I will make this change as part of next patchset.

--
Thanks and Regards
Srikar



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